diff --git a/types/react-hammerjs/index.d.ts b/types/react-hammerjs/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for react-hammerjs 0.5
+// Project: https://github.com/JedWatson/react-hammerjs#readme
+// Definitions by: Jason Unger <https://github.com/jsonunger>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+// TypeScript Version: 2.8
+
+import * as Hammer from 'hammerjs';
+import * as React from 'react';
+
+type Omit<T, K> = Pick<T, Exclude<keyof T, K>>;
+
+type HammerOptionsWithRecognizers = Omit<HammerOptions, 'recognizers'> & {
+    recognizers?: { [gesture: string]: RecognizerOptions };
+};
+
+declare namespace ReactHammer {
+    interface ReactHammerProps {
+        direction?: number;
+        options?: HammerOptionsWithRecognizers;
+        recognizeWith?: { [gesture: string]: Recognizer | string };
+        vertical?: boolean;
+        action?: HammerListener;
+        onDoubleTap?: HammerListener;
+        onPan?: HammerListener;
+        onPanCancel?: HammerListener;
+        onPanEnd?: HammerListener;
+        onPanStart?: HammerListener;
+        onPinch?: HammerListener;
+        onPinchCancel?: HammerListener;
+        onPinchEnd?: HammerListener;
+        onPinchIn?: HammerListener;
+        onPinchStart?: HammerListener;
+        onPress?: HammerListener;
+        onPressUp?: HammerListener;
+        onRotate?: HammerListener;
+        onRotateCancel?: HammerListener;
+        onRotateEnd?: HammerListener;
+        onRotateMove?: HammerListener;
+        onRotateStart?: HammerListener;
+        onSwipe?: HammerListener;
+        onTap?: HammerListener;
+    }
+}
+declare const ReactHammer: React.ComponentClass<ReactHammer.ReactHammerProps>;
+export = ReactHammer;
diff --git a/types/react-hammerjs/react-hammerjs-tests.tsx b/types/react-hammerjs/react-hammerjs-tests.tsx
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+import * as React from 'react';
+import Hammer from 'react-hammerjs';
+
+class ReactHammer extends React.Component<Hammer.ReactHammerProps> {
+    swipe: Hammer.ReactHammerProps['onSwipe'] = input => {
+        console.log(input.deltaX);
+    }
+
+    render() {
+        const { children, ...props } = this.props;
+        return (
+            <Hammer onSwipe={this.swipe} {...props}>
+                {children}
+            </Hammer>
+        );
+    }
+}
diff --git a/types/react-hammerjs/tsconfig.json b/types/react-hammerjs/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6",
+            "dom"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true,
+        "jsx": "react",
+        "esModuleInterop": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "react-hammerjs-tests.tsx"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/react-hammerjs/tslint.json b/types/react-hammerjs/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }