diff --git a/install/src/install.js b/install/src/install.ts
similarity index 74%
rename from install/src/install.js
rename to install/src/install.ts
index c2ac4998..758a8270 100755
--- a/install/src/install.js
+++ b/install/src/install.ts
@@ -1,21 +1,28 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env node
 
 /* eslint-env { parserOptions: { ecmaVersion: 8 }, env: { node: true } } */
-/* eslint-disable global-require, import/no-dynamic-require, import/no-unresolved, @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires */
 
-const fs = require('fs');
-const path = require('path');
-const { execSync } = require('child_process');
-const { Transform } = require('stream');
-const { promisify } = require('util');
-const replaceStream = require('replacestream');
+import fs, { EncodingOption } from 'fs';
+import { Blob } from 'buffer';
+import path from 'path';
+import { execSync } from 'child_process';
+import { Transform } from 'stream';
+import { promisify } from 'util';
+import replaceStream from 'replacestream';
+import { JSONSchemaForNPMPackageJsonFiles as PackageJson } from '@schemastore/package';
 
-const noopTransform = (chunk, encoding, callback) => {
+import config from '../../config';
+
+type DirTree = Array<string | DirTree>;
+
+const noopTransform = (
+  chunk: Blob,
+  encoding: EncodingOption,
+  callback: (error: Error | undefined, nextChunk: Blob) => void,
+) => {
   callback(undefined, chunk);
 };
 
-const config = require('../../config').default;
-
 const ignorePaths = [
   '.git',
   '.npmignore',
@@ -27,9 +34,13 @@ const ignorePaths = [
   '.yarn',
 ].map(x => path.resolve(__dirname, x));
 
-const flatten = list => list.reduce((a, b) => a.concat(Array.isArray(b) ? flatten(b) : b), []);
+const flatten = (tree: DirTree): string[] =>
+  tree.reduce(
+    (accum: string[], curr: string | DirTree) => accum.concat(Array.isArray(curr) ? flatten(curr) : curr),
+    [],
+  );
 
-const clean = (pDJ, projName) => {
+const clean = (pDJ: PackageJson, projName: string) => {
   const blacklist = [
     'bin',
     'bugs',
@@ -42,7 +53,7 @@ const clean = (pDJ, projName) => {
     'readmeFilename',
     'repository',
   ];
-  const newPackageJson = {};
+  const newPackageJson: PackageJson = {};
 
   Object.keys(pDJ).forEach(key => {
     if (!blacklist.includes(key) && !key.startsWith('_')) {
@@ -50,16 +61,16 @@ const clean = (pDJ, projName) => {
     }
   });
 
-  delete newPackageJson.scripts.postinstall;
-  delete newPackageJson.scripts.prepublish;
-  newPackageJson.scripts.test = 'jest -c app/jest.config.ts';
+  delete newPackageJson.scripts!.postinstall;
+  delete newPackageJson.scripts!.prepublish;
+  newPackageJson.scripts!.test = 'jest -c app/jest.config.ts';
 
   newPackageJson.name = projName;
 
   return JSON.stringify(newPackageJson, null, 2);
 };
 
-const rreaddir = root =>
+const rreaddir = (root: string): DirTree =>
   fs.readdirSync(root).map(file => {
     const fileAbsPath = path.join(root, file);
 
@@ -75,7 +86,7 @@ const rreaddir = root =>
     }
   });
 
-const isBin = fileAbsPath => {
+const isBin = (fileAbsPath: string) => {
   switch (path.extname(fileAbsPath)) {
     case '.ico':
       return true;
@@ -96,7 +107,7 @@ const isBin = fileAbsPath => {
     const dstFileAbsPath = path.join(newProjectRoot, srcFileRelFromSrcRoot);
     const dstFileSubfolder = path.parse(dstFileAbsPath).dir;
 
-    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    return new Promise<void>((resolve, reject) => {
       fs.mkdirSync(dstFileSubfolder, { recursive: true });
       const dstFile = fs.createWriteStream(dstFileAbsPath);
 
diff --git a/install/src/webpack.config.ts b/install/src/webpack.config.ts
index b8e23f3e..7fc0ca02 100644
--- a/install/src/webpack.config.ts
+++ b/install/src/webpack.config.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import TerserPlugin from 'terser-webpack-plugin';
 // webpack is the wrong tool for this job - I'm only using it because I refuse to let the dep list for this project grow any more
 export default {
   entry: {
-    main: path.resolve(__dirname, 'install.js'),
+    main: path.resolve(__dirname, 'install.ts'),
   },
   output: {
     filename: 'index.js',
@@ -33,14 +33,7 @@ export default {
       {
         test: /\.ts$/,
         include: path.join(__dirname, '../../'),
-        use: [
-          {
-            loader: 'babel-loader',
-            options: {
-              presets: ['@babel/preset-typescript'],
-            },
-          },
-        ],
+        use: ['babel-loader'],
       },
     ],
   },
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f4d81bac..4a2533f4 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
     "@bjacobel/vhtml-loader": "^2.3.0",
     "@linaria/stylelint-config-standard-linaria": "^6.2.0",
     "@mapbox/cloudfriend": "^8.1.0",
+    "@schemastore/package": "^0.0.10",
     "@testing-library/dom": "^10.0.0",
     "@testing-library/jest-dom": "^6.0.0",
     "@testing-library/react": "^15.0.0",
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index 2873a318..a09c3797 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -17,5 +17,5 @@
       "module": "CommonJS"
     }
   },
-  "include": ["app/**/*", "deploy/**/*", "node_modules/@testing-library/jest-dom/types/jest.d.ts"]
+  "include": ["app/**/*", "deploy/**/*", "install/src/**/*", "node_modules/@testing-library/jest-dom/types/jest.d.ts"]
 }
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index b89c1b5e..8fde930e 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -2918,6 +2918,11 @@
     estree-walker "^2.0.2"
     picomatch "^2.3.1"
 
+"@schemastore/package@^0.0.10":
+  version "0.0.10"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@schemastore/package/-/package-0.0.10.tgz#86e96575328ecf6d0e9299aa9d7ea28afdd8058a"
+  integrity sha512-D3LxMCnkgsb4LO5sDKf6E+yahM2SqpEHmkqMPDSJis5Cy/j2MgWo/g/iq0lECK0mrPWfx3hqKm2ZJlqxwbRJQA==
+
 "@sinclair/typebox@^0.27.8":
   version "0.27.8"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@sinclair/typebox/-/typebox-0.27.8.tgz#6667fac16c436b5434a387a34dedb013198f6e6e"