diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 94299767d9..a78522ea9b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ _infrastructure/tests/build
 *.iml
 *.js.map
 !*.js/
+!scripts/new-package.js
 
 node_modules
 
diff --git a/scripts/new-package.js b/scripts/new-package.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5a9690b43c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/new-package.js
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+/// <reference types="node" />
+"use strict";
+const fs_1 = require("fs");
+const path = require("path");
+const newPackageName = process.argv[2];
+if (!newPackageName) {
+    throw new Error("Usage: node scripts/new-package.js new-package-name");
+}
+fs_1.mkdirSync(newPackageName);
+write("index.d.ts", `// Type definitions for ${newPackageName} 1.2
+// Project: https://github.com/baz/foo (Does not have to be to GitHub, but prefer linking to a source code repository rather than to a project website.)
+// Definitions by: My Self <https://github.com/me>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+Fill the header in!
+`);
+const testsFile = `${newPackageName}-tests.ts`;
+write(testsFile, "");
+const tsconfig = {
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "target": "es6",
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        `${newPackageName}-tests.ts`
+    ]
+};
+write("tsconfig.json", JSON.stringify(tsconfig, undefined, 4));
+function write(name, content) {
+    fs_1.writeFileSync(path.join(newPackageName, name), content);
+}