diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2300fc11d..cfc021bd3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-# `react-scripts-ts` [![npm version](https://badge.fury.io/js/react-scripts-ts.svg)](https://badge.fury.io/js/react-scripts-ts) [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/wmonk/create-react-app-typescript.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/wmonk/create-react-app-typescript)
+# `react-scripts-ts-sass` [![npm version](https://badge.fury.io/js/react-scripts-ts.svg)](https://badge.fury.io/js/react-scripts-ts) [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/wmonk/create-react-app-typescript.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/wmonk/create-react-app-typescript)
 
-Create React apps (with Typescript) with no build configuration.
+Create React apps (with Typescript and Sass) with no build configuration.
 
  * [Getting Started](#tldr) – How to create a new app.
  * [User Guide](https://github.com/wmonk/create-react-app-typescript/blob/master/packages/react-scripts/template/README.md) – How to develop apps bootstrapped with react scripts ts.
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ _Do you know react and want to try out typescript? Or do you know typescript and
 ```sh
 npm install -g create-react-app
 
-create-react-app my-app --scripts-version=react-scripts-ts
+create-react-app my-app --scripts-version=@petejkim/react-scripts-ts-sass
 cd my-app/
 npm start
 ```
diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.dev.js b/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.dev.js
index 924e3e4f0..4881dfd2c 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.dev.js
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.dev.js
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ const CaseSensitivePathsPlugin = require('case-sensitive-paths-webpack-plugin');
 const InterpolateHtmlPlugin = require('react-dev-utils/InterpolateHtmlPlugin');
 const WatchMissingNodeModulesPlugin = require('react-dev-utils/WatchMissingNodeModulesPlugin');
 const ModuleScopePlugin = require('react-dev-utils/ModuleScopePlugin');
-const ForkTsCheckerWebpackPlugin = require('fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin');
 const getClientEnvironment = require('./env');
 const paths = require('./paths');
 const TsconfigPathsPlugin = require('tsconfig-paths-webpack-plugin');
@@ -175,11 +174,7 @@ module.exports = {
             include: paths.appSrc,
             use: [
               {
-                loader: require.resolve('ts-loader'),
-                options: {
-                  // disable type checker - we will use it in fork plugin
-                  transpileOnly: true,
-                },
+                loader: require.resolve('awesome-typescript-loader')
               },
             ],
           },
@@ -220,6 +215,46 @@ module.exports = {
               },
             ],
           },
+          {
+            test: /\.(sass|scss)$/,
+            use: [
+              require.resolve('style-loader'),
+              {
+                loader: require.resolve('css-loader'),
+                options: {
+                  importLoaders: 1,
+                  sourceMap: true,
+                },
+              },
+              {
+                loader: require.resolve('postcss-loader'),
+                options: {
+                  // Necessary for external CSS imports to work
+                  // https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/issues/2677
+                  ident: 'postcss',
+                  plugins: () => [
+                    require('postcss-flexbugs-fixes'),
+                    autoprefixer({
+                      browsers: [
+                        '>1%',
+                        'last 4 versions',
+                        'Firefox ESR',
+                        'not ie < 9', // React doesn't support IE8 anyway
+                      ],
+                      flexbox: 'no-2009',
+                    }),
+                  ],
+                  sourceMap: true,
+                },
+              },
+              {
+                loader: require.resolve('sass-loader'),
+                options: {
+                  sourceMap: true,
+                },
+              },
+            ],
+          },
           // "file" loader makes sure those assets get served by WebpackDevServer.
           // When you `import` an asset, you get its (virtual) filename.
           // In production, they would get copied to the `build` folder.
@@ -274,14 +309,7 @@ module.exports = {
     // solution that requires the user to opt into importing specific locales.
     // https://github.com/jmblog/how-to-optimize-momentjs-with-webpack
     // You can remove this if you don't use Moment.js:
-    new webpack.IgnorePlugin(/^\.\/locale$/, /moment$/),
-    // Perform type checking and linting in a separate process to speed up compilation
-    new ForkTsCheckerWebpackPlugin({
-      async: false,
-      watch: paths.appSrc,
-      tsconfig: paths.appTsConfig,
-      tslint: paths.appTsLint,
-    }),
+    new webpack.IgnorePlugin(/^\.\/locale$/, /moment$/)
   ],
   // Some libraries import Node modules but don't use them in the browser.
   // Tell Webpack to provide empty mocks for them so importing them works.
diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.prod.js b/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.prod.js
index 7cb33afd0..e62630851 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.prod.js
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.prod.js
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ const ManifestPlugin = require('webpack-manifest-plugin');
 const InterpolateHtmlPlugin = require('react-dev-utils/InterpolateHtmlPlugin');
 const SWPrecacheWebpackPlugin = require('sw-precache-webpack-plugin');
 const ModuleScopePlugin = require('react-dev-utils/ModuleScopePlugin');
-const ForkTsCheckerWebpackPlugin = require('fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin');
 const paths = require('./paths');
 const getClientEnvironment = require('./env');
 const TsconfigPathsPlugin = require('tsconfig-paths-webpack-plugin');
@@ -247,6 +246,60 @@ module.exports = {
             ),
             // Note: this won't work without `new ExtractTextPlugin()` in `plugins`.
           },
+          {
+            test: /\.(sass|scss)$/,
+            loader: ExtractTextPlugin.extract(
+              Object.assign(
+                {
+                  fallback: {
+                    loader: require.resolve('style-loader'),
+                    options: {
+                      hmr: false,
+                    },
+                  },
+                  use: [
+                    {
+                      loader: require.resolve('css-loader'),
+                      options: {
+                        importLoaders: 1,
+                        minimize: true,
+                        sourceMap: shouldUseSourceMap,
+                      },
+                    },
+                    {
+                      loader: require.resolve('postcss-loader'),
+                      options: {
+                        // Necessary for external CSS imports to work
+                        // https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/issues/2677
+                        ident: 'postcss',
+                        plugins: () => [
+                          require('postcss-flexbugs-fixes'),
+                          autoprefixer({
+                            browsers: [
+                              '>1%',
+                              'last 4 versions',
+                              'Firefox ESR',
+                              'not ie < 9', // React doesn't support IE8 anyway
+                            ],
+                            flexbox: 'no-2009',
+                          }),
+                        ],
+                        sourceMap: shouldUseSourceMap,
+                      },
+                    },
+                    {
+                      loader: require.resolve('sass-loader'),
+                      options: {
+                        sourceMap: shouldUseSourceMap,
+                      },
+                    },
+                  ],
+                },
+                extractTextPluginOptions
+              )
+            ),
+            // Note: this won't work without `new ExtractTextPlugin()` in `plugins`.
+          },
           // "file" loader makes sure assets end up in the `build` folder.
           // When you `import` an asset, you get its filename.
           // This loader doesn't use a "test" so it will catch all modules
diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/package.json b/packages/react-scripts/package.json
index 95bf68c2a..e24e3a5c5 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/package.json
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/package.json
@@ -1,15 +1,12 @@
 {
-  "name": "react-scripts-ts",
+  "name": "@petejkim/react-scripts-ts-sass",
   "version": "2.16.0",
-  "description": "Configuration and scripts for Create React App.",
-  "repository": "wmonk/create-react-app",
+  "description": "Configuration and scripts for Create React App with support for TypeScript and Sass.",
+  "repository": "petejkim/create-react-app-typescript-sass",
   "license": "BSD-3-Clause",
   "engines": {
     "node": ">=6"
   },
-  "bugs": {
-    "url": "https://github.com/wmonk/create-react-app/issues"
-  },
   "files": [
     "bin",
     "config",
@@ -22,6 +19,7 @@
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "autoprefixer": "7.1.6",
+    "awesome-typescript-loader": "4.0.1",
     "babel-jest": "^22.1.0",
     "babel-loader": "^7.1.2",
     "babel-preset-react-app": "^3.1.1",
@@ -32,22 +30,22 @@
     "dotenv-expand": "4.2.0",
     "extract-text-webpack-plugin": "3.0.2",
     "file-loader": "0.11.2",
-    "fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin": "^0.2.8",
     "fs-extra": "3.0.1",
     "html-webpack-plugin": "2.29.0",
     "jest": "22.4.2",
+    "node-sass": "^4.7.2",
     "object-assign": "4.1.1",
     "postcss-flexbugs-fixes": "3.2.0",
     "postcss-loader": "2.0.8",
     "promise": "8.0.1",
     "raf": "3.4.0",
-    "source-map-loader": "^0.2.1",
     "react-dev-utils": "^5.0.1",
     "resolve": "1.6.0",
+    "sass-loader": "^7.0.1",
+    "source-map-loader": "^0.2.1",
     "style-loader": "0.19.0",
     "sw-precache-webpack-plugin": "0.11.4",
     "ts-jest": "22.0.1",
-    "ts-loader": "^2.3.7",
     "tsconfig-paths-webpack-plugin": "^2.0.0",
     "tslint": "^5.7.0",
     "tslint-config-prettier": "^1.10.0",
diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/scripts/utils/createJestConfig.js b/packages/react-scripts/scripts/utils/createJestConfig.js
index 515e56364..052543e91 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/scripts/utils/createJestConfig.js
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/scripts/utils/createJestConfig.js
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ module.exports = (resolve, rootDir, isEjecting) => {
         ? '<rootDir>/node_modules/babel-jest'
         : resolve('config/jest/babelTransform.js'),
       '^.+\\.tsx?$': resolve('config/jest/typescriptTransform.js'),
-      '^.+\\.css$': resolve('config/jest/cssTransform.js'),
-      '^(?!.*\\.(js|jsx|mjs|css|json)$)': resolve(
+      '^.+\\.(sass|scss|css)$': resolve('config/jest/cssTransform.js'),
+      '^(?!.*\\.(js|jsx|mjs|sass|scss|css|json)$)': resolve(
         'config/jest/fileTransform.js'
       ),
     },
diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/template/src/App.css b/packages/react-scripts/template/src/App.css
deleted file mode 100644
index c5c6e8a68..000000000
--- a/packages/react-scripts/template/src/App.css
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-.App {
-  text-align: center;
-}
-
-.App-logo {
-  animation: App-logo-spin infinite 20s linear;
-  height: 80px;
-}
-
-.App-header {
-  background-color: #222;
-  height: 150px;
-  padding: 20px;
-  color: white;
-}
-
-.App-title {
-  font-size: 1.5em;
-}
-
-.App-intro {
-  font-size: large;
-}
-
-@keyframes App-logo-spin {
-  from { transform: rotate(0deg); }
-  to { transform: rotate(360deg); }
-}
diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/template/src/App.scss b/packages/react-scripts/template/src/App.scss
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6acf87173
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/template/src/App.scss
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+.App {
+  text-align: center;
+
+  &-logo {
+    animation: App-logo-spin infinite 20s linear;
+    height: 80px;
+  }
+
+  &-header {
+    background-color: #222;
+    height: 150px;
+    padding: 20px;
+    color: white;
+  }
+
+  &-title {
+    font-size: 1.5em;
+  }
+
+  &-intro {
+    font-size: large;
+  }
+}
+
+@keyframes App-logo-spin {
+  from { transform: rotate(0deg); }
+  to { transform: rotate(360deg); }
+}
diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/template/src/App.tsx b/packages/react-scripts/template/src/App.tsx
index c1bc27ccd..26a5e8b29 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/template/src/App.tsx
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/template/src/App.tsx
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import * as React from 'react';
-import './App.css';
+import './App.scss';
 
 import logo from './logo.svg';
 
diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/template/src/index.css b/packages/react-scripts/template/src/index.scss
similarity index 100%
rename from packages/react-scripts/template/src/index.css
rename to packages/react-scripts/template/src/index.scss
diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/template/src/index.tsx b/packages/react-scripts/template/src/index.tsx
index a7b130622..5a6964bd1 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/template/src/index.tsx
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/template/src/index.tsx
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import * as React from 'react';
 import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
 import App from './App';
-import './index.css';
+import './index.scss';
 import registerServiceWorker from './registerServiceWorker';
 
 ReactDOM.render(