diff --git a/types/react-native-dotenv/index.d.ts b/types/react-native-dotenv/index.d.ts
index 9066cfc0aa..7c56c10553 100644
--- a/types/react-native-dotenv/index.d.ts
+++ b/types/react-native-dotenv/index.d.ts
@@ -9,5 +9,4 @@ interface Env {
 }
 
 declare const env: Env;
-
-export { env };
+export = env;
diff --git a/types/react-native-dotenv/react-native-dotenv-tests.ts b/types/react-native-dotenv/react-native-dotenv-tests.ts
index 1bb0e930e6..ad17edf36b 100644
--- a/types/react-native-dotenv/react-native-dotenv-tests.ts
+++ b/types/react-native-dotenv/react-native-dotenv-tests.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-import { env } from "react-native-dotenv";
+import env from "react-native-dotenv";
 
 env.API_KEY;
diff --git a/types/react-native-dotenv/tsconfig.json b/types/react-native-dotenv/tsconfig.json
index 9f81e8b6a1..23b7cfb9ed 100644
--- a/types/react-native-dotenv/tsconfig.json
+++ b/types/react-native-dotenv/tsconfig.json
@@ -1,23 +1,17 @@
 {
     "compilerOptions": {
         "module": "commonjs",
-        "lib": [
-            "es6"
-        ],
+        "lib": ["es6"],
+        "esModuleInterop": true,
         "noImplicitAny": true,
         "noImplicitThis": true,
         "strictNullChecks": true,
         "strictFunctionTypes": true,
         "baseUrl": "../",
-        "typeRoots": [
-            "../"
-        ],
+        "typeRoots": ["../"],
         "types": [],
         "noEmit": true,
         "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
     },
-    "files": [
-        "index.d.ts",
-        "react-native-dotenv-tests.ts"
-    ]
+    "files": ["index.d.ts", "react-native-dotenv-tests.ts"]
 }