diff --git a/.github/workflows/frontend.yml b/.github/workflows/frontend.yml
index 4270b2f41b..54f001e3a6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/frontend.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/frontend.yml
@@ -51,3 +51,42 @@ jobs:
         working-directory: frontend
       - name: codecov.io
         run: codecov -F frontend
+
+  flow-to-ts:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v2
+        with:
+          node-version: '14'
+      - name: git config
+        run: |
+          git config --global user.email "Jane@example.com"
+          git config --global user.name "Jane Doe"
+
+      - name: Install globals
+        run: |
+          npm install -g yarn @khanacademy/flow-to-ts
+      - name: Pre-flight switches
+        working-directory: frontend
+        run: |
+          yarn remove flow-bin
+          yarn add -D typescript @types/jest @types/node @types/react @types/react-dom
+      - name: Pre-flight diff
+        run: git diff
+      - name: Pre-flight commit
+        run: git commit -am"Pre-flight flow to ts"
+      - name: flow-to-ts
+        working-directory: frontend
+        run: flow-to-ts --prettier --write --delete-source 'src/**/*.js'
+      # Git diff doesn't do anything constructive on gh actions, disable for now
+      # - name: Stage
+      #   run: |
+      #     git add frontend
+      #     git commit -m'flow-to-ts'
+      # - name: flow-to-ts diff
+      #   run: git show HEAD
+      - name: tsc
+        working-directory: frontend
+        run: ./node_modules/.bin/tsc -b no-tsconfig.json
+        continue-on-error: true
diff --git a/frontend/no-tsconfig.json b/frontend/no-tsconfig.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4cb838f9ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/no-tsconfig.json
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+{
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    /* Visit https://aka.ms/tsconfig.json to read more about this file */
+
+    /* Basic Options */
+    // "incremental": true,                   /* Enable incremental compilation */
+    "target": "es5",                          /* Specify ECMAScript target version: 'ES3' (default), 'ES5', 'ES2015', 'ES2016', 'ES2017', 'ES2018', 'ES2019', 'ES2020', or 'ESNEXT'. */
+    "module": "commonjs",                     /* Specify module code generation: 'none', 'commonjs', 'amd', 'system', 'umd', 'es2015', 'es2020', or 'ESNext'. */
+    // "lib": [],                             /* Specify library files to be included in the compilation. */
+    // "allowJs": true,                       /* Allow javascript files to be compiled. */
+    // "checkJs": true,                       /* Report errors in .js files. */
+    "jsx": "react",                     /* Specify JSX code generation: 'preserve', 'react-native', or 'react'. */
+    // "declaration": true,                   /* Generates corresponding '.d.ts' file. */
+    // "declarationMap": true,                /* Generates a sourcemap for each corresponding '.d.ts' file. */
+    // "sourceMap": true,                     /* Generates corresponding '.map' file. */
+    // "outFile": "./",                       /* Concatenate and emit output to single file. */
+    // "outDir": "./",                        /* Redirect output structure to the directory. */
+    // "rootDir": "./",                       /* Specify the root directory of input files. Use to control the output directory structure with --outDir. */
+    // "composite": true,                     /* Enable project compilation */
+    // "tsBuildInfoFile": "./",               /* Specify file to store incremental compilation information */
+    // "removeComments": true,                /* Do not emit comments to output. */
+    // "noEmit": true,                        /* Do not emit outputs. */
+    // "importHelpers": true,                 /* Import emit helpers from 'tslib'. */
+    // "downlevelIteration": true,            /* Provide full support for iterables in 'for-of', spread, and destructuring when targeting 'ES5' or 'ES3'. */
+    "isolatedModules": false,                 /* Transpile each file as a separate module (similar to 'ts.transpileModule'). */
+
+    /* Strict Type-Checking Options */
+    "strict": false,                          /* Enable all strict type-checking options. */
+    // "noImplicitAny": true,                 /* Raise error on expressions and declarations with an implied 'any' type. */
+    // "strictNullChecks": true,              /* Enable strict null checks. */
+    // "strictFunctionTypes": true,           /* Enable strict checking of function types. */
+    // "strictBindCallApply": true,           /* Enable strict 'bind', 'call', and 'apply' methods on functions. */
+    // "strictPropertyInitialization": true,  /* Enable strict checking of property initialization in classes. */
+    // "noImplicitThis": true,                /* Raise error on 'this' expressions with an implied 'any' type. */
+    // "alwaysStrict": true,                  /* Parse in strict mode and emit "use strict" for each source file. */
+
+    /* Additional Checks */
+    // "noUnusedLocals": true,                /* Report errors on unused locals. */
+    // "noUnusedParameters": true,            /* Report errors on unused parameters. */
+    // "noImplicitReturns": true,             /* Report error when not all code paths in function return a value. */
+    // "noFallthroughCasesInSwitch": true,    /* Report errors for fallthrough cases in switch statement. */
+    // "noUncheckedIndexedAccess": true,      /* Include 'undefined' in index signature results */
+
+    /* Module Resolution Options */
+    // "moduleResolution": "node",            /* Specify module resolution strategy: 'node' (Node.js) or 'classic' (TypeScript pre-1.6). */
+    "baseUrl": "src/",                        /* Base directory to resolve non-absolute module names. */
+    // "paths": {},                           /* A series of entries which re-map imports to lookup locations relative to the 'baseUrl'. */
+    // "rootDirs": [],                        /* List of root folders whose combined content represents the structure of the project at runtime. */
+    // "typeRoots": [],                       /* List of folders to include type definitions from. */
+    // "types": [],                           /* Type declaration files to be included in compilation. */
+    // "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true,  /* Allow default imports from modules with no default export. This does not affect code emit, just typechecking. */
+    "esModuleInterop": true,                  /* Enables emit interoperability between CommonJS and ES Modules via creation of namespace objects for all imports. Implies 'allowSyntheticDefaultImports'. */
+    // "preserveSymlinks": true,              /* Do not resolve the real path of symlinks. */
+    // "allowUmdGlobalAccess": true,          /* Allow accessing UMD globals from modules. */
+
+    /* Source Map Options */
+    // "sourceRoot": "",                      /* Specify the location where debugger should locate TypeScript files instead of source locations. */
+    // "mapRoot": "",                         /* Specify the location where debugger should locate map files instead of generated locations. */
+    // "inlineSourceMap": true,               /* Emit a single file with source maps instead of having a separate file. */
+    // "inlineSources": true,                 /* Emit the source alongside the sourcemaps within a single file; requires '--inlineSourceMap' or '--sourceMap' to be set. */
+
+    /* Experimental Options */
+    // "experimentalDecorators": true,        /* Enables experimental support for ES7 decorators. */
+    // "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,         /* Enables experimental support for emitting type metadata for decorators. */
+
+    /* Advanced Options */
+    "skipLibCheck": true,                     /* Skip type checking of declaration files. */
+    "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true  /* Disallow inconsistently-cased references to the same file. */
+  },
+  "include": ["src"]
+}