diff --git a/app/react/README.md b/app/react/README.md
index 31131395211d..573ea112c831 100644
--- a/app/react/README.md
+++ b/app/react/README.md
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ Here are some featured storybooks that you can reference to see how Storybook wo
 -   [Demo of React Dates](http://airbnb.io/react-dates/) - [source](https://github.com/airbnb/react-dates)
 -   [Demo of React Native Web](http://necolas.github.io/react-native-web/storybook/) - [source](https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web)
 
+## Typescript
+
+If you are using Typescript, make sure you have the type definitions installed via `yarn add @types/node @types/react @types/storybook__react --dev`.
+
 ## Docs
 
 -   [Basics](https://storybook.js.org/docs/react-storybook/basics/introduction)
diff --git a/app/react/config/storybook.d.ts b/app/react/config/storybook.d.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index a7c34ab3c8b6..000000000000
--- a/app/react/config/storybook.d.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-declare var module: any; // dangerous
-
-type RenderFunction = Function;
-
-interface StoryDecorator {
-  (story: RenderFunction, context: { kind: string, story: string }): Object | null;
-}
-
-interface Story {
-    add (storyName: string, callback: Function): Story;
-    addDecorator (decorator: StoryDecorator): Story;
-}
-
-export function addDecorator(decorator: StoryDecorator): void;
-export function configure(fn: Function, module: any): void;
-export function linkTo(name: string, ...params: any[]): void;
-export function storiesOf(name: string, module: any): Story;
-export function action(name: string, ...params: any[]): any;
-
-type StoryObject = {
-  name: string,
-  render: RenderFunction,
-};
-
-type StoryBucket = {
-  kind: string,
-  stories: StoryObject[],
-};
-
-export function getStorybook(): StoryBucket[];
diff --git a/app/react/package.json b/app/react/package.json
index 29439b5b8c5e..4f9b2808159a 100644
--- a/app/react/package.json
+++ b/app/react/package.json
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
   },
   "license": "MIT",
   "main": "dist/client/index.js",
-  "typings": "./config/storybook.d.ts",
   "bin": {
     "build-storybook": "./dist/server/build.js",
     "start-storybook": "./dist/server/index.js",