diff --git a/types/react-compass/index.d.ts b/types/react-compass/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for react-compass 0.1
+// Project: https://github.com/virtyaluk/react-compass
+// Definitions by: Rick Wilson <https://github.com/rwilson504>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+import * as React from "react";
+
+export interface ReactCompassProps {
+    direction: number;
+    directionNames?: string[];
+}
+
+export function directionName(dir: number): string;
+export function normalizeAngle(direction: number): number;
+
+export class ReactCompass extends React.Component<ReactCompassProps, any> {}
+export default ReactCompass;
diff --git a/types/react-compass/react-compass-tests.tsx b/types/react-compass/react-compass-tests.tsx
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+import * as React from "react";
+import ReactCompass from 'react-compass';
+
+interface CompassProps {
+    direction: number;
+}
+
+const CompassComp: React.FC<CompassProps> = (props) => {
+    return (<ReactCompass direction={0} />);
+};
diff --git a/types/react-compass/tsconfig.json b/types/react-compass/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6",
+            "dom"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "jsx": "react",
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "react-compass-tests.tsx"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/react-compass/tslint.json b/types/react-compass/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }