diff --git a/types/react-github-button/index.d.ts b/types/react-github-button/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for react-github-button 0.1
+// Project: https://github.com/benjycui/react-github-button#readme
+// Definitions by: Ifiok Jr. <https://github.com/ifiokjr>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+// TypeScript Version: 2.8
+
+import { Component } from 'react';
+
+export interface ReactGitHubButtonProps {
+    /**
+     * The type of information to display
+     */
+    type: 'stargazers' | 'watchers' | 'forks';
+    /**
+     * The size of the button. Leave undefined for default.
+     */
+    size?: 'large';
+    /**
+     * Your GitHub id or organization name.
+     */
+    namespace: string;
+    /**
+     * The name of your repository.
+     */
+    repo: string;
+}
+
+export default class GitHubButton extends Component<ReactGitHubButtonProps> {}
diff --git a/types/react-github-button/react-github-button-tests.tsx b/types/react-github-button/react-github-button-tests.tsx
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+import GitHubButton from 'react-github-button';
+
+const MyComponent = () => (
+    <GitHubButton
+        type="stargazers"
+        size="large"
+        namespace="benjycui"
+        repo="react-github-button"
+    />
+);
diff --git a/types/react-github-button/tsconfig.json b/types/react-github-button/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": ["es6"],
+        "jsx": "preserve",
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": ["../"],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": ["index.d.ts", "react-github-button-tests.tsx"]
+}
diff --git a/types/react-github-button/tslint.json b/types/react-github-button/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }