diff --git a/emojione/emojione-tests.ts b/emojione/emojione-tests.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ea5d04e217
--- /dev/null
+++ b/emojione/emojione-tests.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+emojione.sprites = true;
+emojione.imagePathPNG = 'foobar';
+emojione.imagePathSVG = 'foobar';
+emojione.imagePathSVGSprites = 'foobar';
+emojione.imageType = 'svg';
+emojione.unicodeAlt = false;
+emojione.ascii = true;
+emojione.unicodeRegexp = '123.*';
+emojione.cacheBustParam = 'asdf';
+const myShort: string = emojione.toShort('hi');
+const myImage1: string = emojione.toImage('hi');
+const myImage2: string = emojione.shortnameToImage('hi');
+const myImage3: string = emojione.unicodeToImage('hi');
diff --git a/emojione/index.d.ts b/emojione/index.d.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..48b55e87cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/emojione/index.d.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+// Type definitions for emojione 2.2
+// Project: https://github.com/Ranks/emojione
+// Definitions by: Danilo Bargen <https://github.com/dbrgn/>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+export as namespace emojione;
+
+export var sprites: boolean;
+export var imagePathPNG: string;
+export var imagePathSVG: string;
+export var imagePathSVGSprites: string;
+export var imageType: 'png' | 'svg';
+export var unicodeAlt: boolean;
+export var ascii: boolean;
+export var unicodeRegexp: string;
+export var cacheBustParam: string;
+export function toShort(str: string): string;
+export function toImage(str: string): string;
+export function shortnameToImage(str: string): string;
+export function unicodeToImage(str: string): string;
diff --git a/emojione/tsconfig.json b/emojione/tsconfig.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..67f76849f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/emojione/tsconfig.json
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "target": "es6",
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "emojione-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/emojione/tslint.json b/emojione/tslint.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..377cc837d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/emojione/tslint.json
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{ "extends": "../tslint.json" }