diff --git a/types/react-typist/index.d.ts b/types/react-typist/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for react-typist 2.0
+// Project: https://github.com/jstejada/react-typist#readme
+// Definitions by: Shawn Choi <https://github.com/shawnkoon>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+// TypeScript Version: 3.1
+
+import * as React from "react";
+
+export namespace TreeView {
+    interface CursorProps {
+        show?: boolean;
+        blink?: boolean;
+        element?: string;
+        hideWhenDone?: boolean;
+        hideWhenDoneDelay?: number;
+    }
+
+    interface CurrentTextProps {
+        line: string;
+        lineIdx: number;
+        character: string;
+        charIdx: number;
+        defDelayGenerator: (
+            mn: number,
+            st: number
+        ) => (...params: any) => number;
+    }
+
+    interface DelayProps {
+        ms: number;
+    }
+    class Delay extends React.Component<DelayProps> {}
+
+    interface BackSpaceProps {
+        count?: number;
+        delay?: number;
+    }
+    class Backspace extends React.Component<BackSpaceProps> {}
+}
+
+export interface TreeViewProps {
+    className?: string;
+    avgTypingDelay?: number;
+    stdTypingDelay?: number;
+    startDelay?: number;
+    cursor?: TreeView.CursorProps;
+    onCharacterTyped?: (char: string, charIndex: number) => void;
+    onLineTyped?: (line: string, lineIndex: number) => void;
+    onTypingDone?: () => void;
+    delayGenerator?: (
+        mean: number,
+        std: number,
+        current: TreeView.CurrentTextProps
+    ) => number;
+}
+
+export class TreeView extends React.Component<TreeViewProps> {}
+
+export default TreeView;
diff --git a/types/react-typist/react-typist-tests.tsx b/types/react-typist/react-typist-tests.tsx
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+import * as React from "react";
+import Typist from "react-typist";
+
+class ReactTypist extends React.Component {
+    state = {
+        renderMsg: false
+    };
+
+    onHeaderTyped = () => {
+        this.setState({ renderMsg: true });
+    }
+
+    render() {
+        const docs = "//github.com/jstejada/react-typist";
+        return (
+            <div className="TypistExample">
+                <Typist
+                    className="TypistExample-header"
+                    avgTypingDelay={40}
+                    startDelay={2000}
+                    onTypingDone={this.onHeaderTyped}
+                >
+                    <a href={docs}>React Typist</a>
+                </Typist>
+                <div className="TypistExample-content">
+                    {this.state.renderMsg ? (
+                        <Typist
+                            className="TypistExample-message"
+                            cursor={{ hideWhenDone: true }}
+                        >
+                            * Easy to style
+                            <Typist.Delay ms={1250} />
+                            <br />
+                            * Easy to customize
+                            <Typist.Delay ms={1250} />
+                            <br />
+                            * Easy to use backp
+                            <Typist.Delay ms={500} />
+                            sace
+                            <Typist.Backspace count={5} delay={1000} />
+                            <Typist.Delay ms={750} />
+                            space
+                            <Typist.Delay ms={1250} />
+                            <br />
+                            <span>
+                                *{" "}
+                                <a href={docs} className="flash">
+                                    docs
+                                </a>
+                            </span>
+                            <br />
+                            {""}
+                        </Typist>
+                    ) : null}
+                </div>
+            </div>
+        );
+    }
+}
diff --git a/types/react-typist/tsconfig.json b/types/react-typist/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "jsx": "react",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "react-typist-tests.tsx"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/react-typist/tslint.json b/types/react-typist/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }