diff --git a/types/hapi-auth-basic/hapi-auth-basic-tests.ts b/types/hapi-auth-basic/hapi-auth-basic-tests.ts
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+import Bcrypt = require('bcrypt');
+import Basic = require('hapi-auth-basic');
+import * as Hapi from 'hapi';
+
+const server = new Hapi.Server();
+
+interface User {
+    username: string;
+    password: string;
+    name: string;
+    id: string;
+}
+
+const users: {[index: string]: User} = {
+    john: {
+        username: 'john',
+        password: '$2a$10$iqJSHD.BGr0E2IxQwYgJmeP3NvhPrXAeLSaGCj6IR/XU5QtjVu5Tm',   // 'secret'
+        name: 'John Doe',
+        id: '2133d32a'
+    }
+};
+
+const validate: Basic.ValidateFunc = function (request, username, password, callback) {
+
+    const user = users[username];
+    if (!user) {
+        return callback(null, false);
+    }
+
+    Bcrypt.compare(password, user.password, (err, isValid) => {
+
+        callback(err, isValid, { id: user.id, name: user.name });
+    });
+};
+
+server.register(Basic, (err) => {
+
+    server.auth.strategy('simple', 'basic', { validateFunc: validate });
+    server.route({ method: 'GET', path: '/', config: { auth: 'simple' } });
+});
diff --git a/types/hapi-auth-basic/index.d.ts b/types/hapi-auth-basic/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for hapi 4.2
+// Project: https://github.com/hapijs/hapi-auth-basic
+// Definitions by: AJP <https://github.com/AJamesPhillips>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+// TypeScript Version: 2.2
+
+import * as Hapi from 'hapi';
+
+declare namespace Basic {
+    interface ValidateFuncCallback {
+        (err: Error | null, isValid: boolean, userCredentials?: any): void;
+    }
+
+    interface ValidateFunc {
+        (request: Hapi.Request, username: string, password: string, callback: ValidateFuncCallback): void;
+    }
+}
+
+declare var Basic: Hapi.PluginFunction<{}>;
+
+export = Basic;
diff --git a/types/hapi-auth-basic/tsconfig.json b/types/hapi-auth-basic/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "hapi-auth-basic-tests"
+    ]
+}