diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 55cf3c33..ece638dd 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
   "scripts": {
     "build": "genversion lib/version.js && npm run build-lib && npm run build-flow",
     "build-flow": "flow-copy-source -i */__tests__* lib dist",
-    "build-lib": "BABEL_ENV=publish babel lib -d dist --ignore __tests__ --copy-files",
+    "build-lib": "npm run validate-ts-declarations && BABEL_ENV=publish babel lib -d dist --ignore __tests__ --copy-files",
     "clean": "rimraf dist/",
     "flow": "flow",
     "format": "eslint --fix ./lib ./tests/src ./tests/lib",
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@
     "tests-npm-install": "cd tests && npm install",
     "tests-pod-install": "cd tests && npm run ios:pod:install",
     "tests-watch-start": "npm run test-cli watch init start",
-    "tests-watch-stop": "npm run test-cli watch stop"
+    "tests-watch-stop": "npm run test-cli watch stop",
+    "validate-ts-declarations": "tsc --project ./"
   },
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
@@ -101,6 +102,7 @@
     "react-native": "^0.52.0",
     "rimraf": "^2.6.2",
     "shelljs": "^0.7.8",
+    "typescript": "^2.6.2",
     "wml": "0.0.82"
   },
   "dependencies": {
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..550ece32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+{
+  "compilerOptions": {
+      "target": "es5",
+      "module": "commonjs",
+      "jsx": "react",
+      "sourceMap": true,
+      "strict": true,
+      "noUnusedLocals": true,
+      "noUnusedParameters": true,
+      "noImplicitReturns": true,
+      "noFallthroughCasesInSwitch": true,
+      "moduleResolution": "node",
+      "experimentalDecorators": true,
+      "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
+      "lib": [
+          "es2015",
+          "es2016",
+          "esnext",
+          "dom"
+      ]
+  },
+  "files": [
+      "./lib/index.d.ts"
+  ]
+}