diff --git a/types/ex-react-native-i18n/ex-react-native-i18n-tests.ts b/types/ex-react-native-i18n/ex-react-native-i18n-tests.ts
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+import I18n from 'ex-react-native-i18n';
+
+I18n.defaultLocale = 'en';
+I18n.fallbacks = true;
+I18n.translations = {};
+I18n.locale = 'zh';
+
+const deviceLocale: string = I18n.locale;
diff --git a/types/ex-react-native-i18n/index.d.ts b/types/ex-react-native-i18n/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for ex-react-native-i18n 0.0
+// Project: https://github.com/xcarpentier/ex-react-native-i18n/
+// Definitions by: LikKee Richie <https://github.com/maplerichie>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+// TypeScript Version: 2.2
+
+// Actual version for ex-react-native-i18n is 0.0.4 but 'npm run lint' doesn't allow patch version to pass
+import I18n = require("i18n-js");
+// import I18n from 'ex-react-native-i18n';
+
+export default I18n;
diff --git a/types/ex-react-native-i18n/tsconfig.json b/types/ex-react-native-i18n/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "ex-react-native-i18n-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/ex-react-native-i18n/tslint.json b/types/ex-react-native-i18n/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }