diff --git a/types/react-native-restart/index.d.ts b/types/react-native-restart/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for react-native-restart 0.0
+// Project: https://github.com/avishayil/react-native-restart#readme
+// Definitions by: Christian Chown <https://github.com/christianchown>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+// TypeScript Version: 2.9
+
+declare let ReactNativeRestart: {
+    Restart(): void;
+};
+
+export default ReactNativeRestart;
diff --git a/types/react-native-restart/react-native-restart-tests.tsx b/types/react-native-restart/react-native-restart-tests.tsx
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+import * as React from "react";
+import ReactNativeRestart from "react-native-restart";
+
+ReactNativeRestart.Restart();
diff --git a/types/react-native-restart/tsconfig.json b/types/react-native-restart/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "jsx": "react-native",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "react-native-restart-tests.tsx"
+    ]
+}
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diff --git a/types/react-native-restart/tslint.json b/types/react-native-restart/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }
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