diff --git a/types/app-root-dir/app-root-dir-tests.ts b/types/app-root-dir/app-root-dir-tests.ts
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+import * as rootDir from 'app-root-dir';
+
+let appRootPath: string;
+
+rootDir.set('__dirname');
+appRootPath = rootDir.get();
diff --git a/types/app-root-dir/index.d.ts b/types/app-root-dir/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for app-root-dir 0.1
+// Project: https://github.com/philidem/node-app-root-dir
+// Definitions by: shaochenyang <https://github.com/chenyang-biu>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+interface AppRootDir {
+  // Get the application's root directory
+  get(): string;
+  /**
+   * Set the application's root directory
+   *    this will set a global so that no matter
+   *    how many instances of app-root-dir module are installed,
+   *    they will all return the same directory
+   */
+  set(dirname: string): void;
+}
+
+declare const AppRootDir: AppRootDir;
+
+export = AppRootDir;
diff --git a/types/app-root-dir/tsconfig.json b/types/app-root-dir/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",
+        "app-root-dir-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/app-root-dir/tslint.json b/types/app-root-dir/tslint.json
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+{
+  "extends": "dtslint/dt.json"
+}