diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/template/tslint.json b/packages/react-scripts/template/tslint.json
index eb5d66a02..92e482882 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/template/tslint.json
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/template/tslint.json
@@ -25,9 +25,13 @@
         "max-line-length": [ true, 120 ],
         "member-ordering": [
             true,
-            "public-before-private",
-            "static-before-instance",
-            "variables-before-functions"
+            {
+                "order": [
+                    "public-before-private",
+                    "static-before-instance",
+                    "variables-before-functions"
+                ]
+            }
         ],
         "no-any": true,
         "no-arg": true,