diff --git a/types/react-highlight.js/index.d.ts b/types/react-highlight.js/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for react-highlight.js 1.0
+// Project: https://github.com/bvaughn/react-highlight.js
+// Definitions by: Christian Murphy <https://github.com/ChristianMurphy>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+// TypeScript Version: 2.8
+
+import { ComponentClass, ReactNode } from "react";
+
+/**
+ * Props for a Highlight component.
+ */
+export interface HighlightProps {
+    /**
+     * Language name to use as a class to signal type to highlight.js.
+     */
+    language: string;
+
+    /**
+     * Content that will be highlighted
+     */
+    children?: ReactNode;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A lightweight React wrapper around the Highlight.js syntax highlighting library.
+ */
+declare const Highlight: ComponentClass<HighlightProps>;
+
+export default Highlight;
diff --git a/types/react-highlight.js/react-highlight.js-tests.tsx b/types/react-highlight.js/react-highlight.js-tests.tsx
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+import * as React from "react";
+import Highlight from "react-highlight.js";
+
+export const _ = () => <>
+	<Highlight language="javascript" />
+	<Highlight language="typescript">
+		`console.log("Hello, world!");`
+	</Highlight>
+</>;
diff --git a/types/react-highlight.js/tsconfig.json b/types/react-highlight.js/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "jsx": "react",
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "react-highlight.js-tests.tsx"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/react-highlight.js/tslint.json b/types/react-highlight.js/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }