diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/package.json b/packages/react-scripts/package.json
index 16ba41caa..1f70d715e 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/package.json
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/package.json
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
     "ts-loader": "^2.3.7",
     "tsconfig-paths-webpack-plugin": "^2.0.0",
     "tslint": "^5.7.0",
+    "tslint-config-prettier": "^1.10.0",
     "tslint-react": "^3.2.0",
     "uglifyjs-webpack-plugin": "^1.1.8",
     "url-loader": "0.6.2",
diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/template/images.d.ts b/packages/react-scripts/template/images.d.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..397cc9b35
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/template/images.d.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+declare module '*.svg'
+declare module '*.png'
+declare module '*.jpg'
diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/template/src/App.tsx b/packages/react-scripts/template/src/App.tsx
index 921bb811d..c1bc27ccd 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/template/src/App.tsx
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/template/src/App.tsx
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 import * as React from 'react';
 import './App.css';
 
-const logo = require('./logo.svg');
+import logo from './logo.svg';
 
 class App extends React.Component {
-  render() {
+  public render() {
     return (
       <div className="App">
         <header className="App-header">
diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/template/src/index.tsx b/packages/react-scripts/template/src/index.tsx
index 1c66245ab..a7b130622 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/template/src/index.tsx
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/template/src/index.tsx
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 import * as React from 'react';
 import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
 import App from './App';
-import registerServiceWorker from './registerServiceWorker';
 import './index.css';
+import registerServiceWorker from './registerServiceWorker';
 
 ReactDOM.render(
   <App />,
diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/template/tslint.json b/packages/react-scripts/template/tslint.json
index eb5d66a02..67823d8e1 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/template/tslint.json
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/template/tslint.json
@@ -1,99 +1,9 @@
 {
-    "extends": ["tslint-react"],
-    "rules": {
-        "align": [
-            true,
-            "parameters",
-            "arguments",
-            "statements"
-        ],
-        "ban": false,
-        "class-name": true,
-        "comment-format": [
-            true,
-            "check-space"
-        ],
-        "curly": true,
-        "eofline": false,
-        "forin": true,
-        "indent": [ true, "spaces" ],
-        "interface-name": [true, "never-prefix"],
-        "jsdoc-format": true,
-        "jsx-no-lambda": false,
-        "jsx-no-multiline-js": false,
-        "label-position": true,
-        "max-line-length": [ true, 120 ],
-        "member-ordering": [
-            true,
-            "public-before-private",
-            "static-before-instance",
-            "variables-before-functions"
-        ],
-        "no-any": true,
-        "no-arg": true,
-        "no-bitwise": true,
-        "no-console": [
-            true,
-            "log",
-            "error",
-            "debug",
-            "info",
-            "time",
-            "timeEnd",
-            "trace"
-        ],
-        "no-consecutive-blank-lines": true,
-        "no-construct": true,
-        "no-debugger": true,
-        "no-duplicate-variable": true,
-        "no-empty": true,
-        "no-eval": true,
-        "no-shadowed-variable": true,
-        "no-string-literal": true,
-        "no-switch-case-fall-through": true,
-        "no-trailing-whitespace": false,
-        "no-unused-expression": true,
-        "no-use-before-declare": true,
-        "one-line": [
-            true,
-            "check-catch",
-            "check-else",
-            "check-open-brace",
-            "check-whitespace"
-        ],
-        "quotemark": [true, "single", "jsx-double"],
-        "radix": true,
-        "semicolon": [true, "always"],
-        "switch-default": true,
-
-        "trailing-comma": [false],
-
-        "triple-equals": [ true, "allow-null-check" ],
-        "typedef": [
-            true,
-            "parameter",
-            "property-declaration"
-        ],
-        "typedef-whitespace": [
-            true,
-            {
-                "call-signature": "nospace",
-                "index-signature": "nospace",
-                "parameter": "nospace",
-                "property-declaration": "nospace",
-                "variable-declaration": "nospace"
-            }
-        ],
-        "variable-name": [true, "ban-keywords", "check-format", "allow-leading-underscore", "allow-pascal-case"],
-        "whitespace": [
-            true,
-            "check-branch",
-            "check-decl",
-            "check-module",
-            "check-operator",
-            "check-separator",
-            "check-type",
-            "check-typecast"
-        ]
-    }
+  "extends": ["tslint:recommended", "tslint-react", "tslint-config-prettier"],
+  "linterOptions": {
+    "exclude": [
+      "config/**/*.js",
+      "node_modules/**/*.ts"
+    ]
+  }
 }