diff --git a/types/react-rte/index.d.ts b/types/react-rte/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for react-rte 0.16.1
+// Project: https://github.com/sstur/react-rte
+// Definitions by: jclyons52 <https://github.com/jclyons52>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+// TypeScript Version: 2.8
+
+import { Component, ReactNode } from "react";
+import { ContentBlock, EditorState } from "draft-js";
+import { Options as ImportOptions } from "draft-js-import-html";
+import { Options as ExportOptions } from "draft-js-export-html";
+
+type StringMap = { [key: string]: string };
+
+export class EditorValue {
+    constructor(editorState: EditorState, cache: StringMap);
+    getEditorState(): EditorState;
+    setEditorState(editorState: EditorState): EditorValue;
+    toString(format: string, options?: ExportOptions): string;
+    setContentFromString(
+        markup: string,
+        format: string,
+        options?: ImportOptions
+    ): EditorValue;
+    static createEmpty(decorator?: any): EditorValue;
+    static createFromState(editorState: EditorState): EditorValue;
+    static createFromString(
+        markup: string,
+        format: string,
+        decorator?: any,
+        options?: ImportOptions
+    ): EditorValue;
+}
+
+interface StyleConfig {
+    label: string;
+    style: string;
+    className?: string;
+}
+
+type StyleConfigList = Array<StyleConfig>;
+
+type ChangeHandler = (value: EditorValue) => any;
+
+type GetControlState = (key: string) => string | undefined;
+
+type SetControlState = (key: string, value: string) => void;
+
+type CustControlFunc = (
+    set: SetControlState,
+    get: GetControlState,
+    state: EditorState
+) => ReactNode;
+
+type CustomControl = ReactNode | CustControlFunc;
+
+type GroupName =
+    | "INLINE_STYLE_BUTTONS"
+    | "BLOCK_TYPE_BUTTONS"
+    | "LINK_BUTTONS"
+    | "BLOCK_TYPE_DROPDOWN"
+    | "HISTORY_BUTTONS"
+    | "IMAGE_BUTTON";
+
+interface ToolbarConfig {
+    display: Array<GroupName>;
+    extraProps?: Object;
+    INLINE_STYLE_BUTTONS: StyleConfigList;
+    BLOCK_TYPE_DROPDOWN: StyleConfigList;
+    BLOCK_TYPE_BUTTONS: StyleConfigList;
+}
+
+interface IProps {
+    className?: string;
+    toolbarClassName?: string;
+    editorClassName?: string;
+    value: EditorValue;
+    onChange?: ChangeHandler;
+    placeholder?: string;
+    customStyleMap?: { [style: string]: { [key: string]: any } };
+    handleReturn?: (event: Object) => boolean;
+    customControls?: Array<CustomControl>;
+    readOnly?: boolean;
+    disabled?: boolean; // Alias of readOnly
+    toolbarConfig?: ToolbarConfig;
+    blockStyleFn?: (block: ContentBlock) => string | undefined;
+    autoFocus?: boolean;
+    keyBindingFn?: (event: Object) => string | undefined;
+    rootStyle?: Object;
+    editorStyle?: Object;
+    toolbarStyle?: Object;
+}
+
+export default class RichTextEditor extends Component<IProps, any> {
+    public static createEmptyValue(): EditorValue;
+    public static createValueFromString(
+        markup: string,
+        format: string,
+        options?: ImportOptions
+    ): EditorValue;
+}
diff --git a/types/react-rte/package.json b/types/react-rte/package.json
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+{
+    "private": true,
+    "dependencies": {
+        "draft-js-export-html": ">=0.6.0",
+        "draft-js-import-html": ">=0.4.0"
+    }
+}
diff --git a/types/react-rte/tsconfig.json b/types/react-rte/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": ["es6", "dom"],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "jsx": "react",
+        "typeRoots": ["../"],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": ["index.d.ts"]
+}
diff --git a/types/react-rte/tslint.json b/types/react-rte/tslint.json
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+{
+    "extends": "dtslint/dt.json"
+}