diff --git a/.eslintrc.json b/.eslintrc.json
index b91696c..3b7e75a 100644
--- a/.eslintrc.json
+++ b/.eslintrc.json
@@ -5,10 +5,15 @@
     "amd": true,
     "jest": true
   },
-  "extends": "eslint:recommended",
-  "parserOptions": {
-    "ecmaVersion": 2018
-  },
+  "extends": [
+    "eslint:recommended",
+    "plugin:@typescript-eslint/eslint-recommended",
+    "plugin:@typescript-eslint/recommended"
+  ],
+  "parser": "@typescript-eslint/parser",
+  "plugins": [
+    "@typescript-eslint"
+  ],
   "rules": {
     "indent": ["error", 2],
     "linebreak-style": ["error", "unix"],
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 9b5e8ea..5270034 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,4 +2,6 @@ node_modules
 package-lock.json
 output-template.yml
 *.tgz
-coverage/
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+coverage/
+dist/
+.DS_Store
diff --git a/__tests__/index.test.js b/__tests__/index.test.ts
similarity index 97%
rename from __tests__/index.test.js
rename to __tests__/index.test.ts
index a626044..91ef941 100644
--- a/__tests__/index.test.js
+++ b/__tests__/index.test.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
-const axios = require('axios');
+import axios from 'axios';
 
 jest.mock('axios');
 
-const { Authenticator } = require('../index');
+import { Authenticator } from '../src/';
 
 const DATE = new Date('2017');
+// @ts-ignore
 global.Date = class extends Date {
   constructor() {
     super();
@@ -28,7 +29,7 @@ describe('private functions', () => {
   });
 
   test('should fetch token', () => {
-    axios.request.mockResolvedValue({ data: tokenData });
+    axios.request = jest.fn().mockResolvedValue({ data: tokenData });
 
     return authenticator._fetchTokensFromCode('htt://redirect', 'AUTH_CODE')
       .then(res => {
@@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ describe('private functions', () => {
   });
 
   test('should throw if unable to fetch token', () => {
-    axios.request.mockRejectedValue(new Error('Unexpected error'));
+    axios.request = jest.fn().mockRejectedValue(new Error('Unexpected error'));
     return expect(() => authenticator._fetchTokensFromCode('htt://redirect', 'AUTH_CODE')).rejects.toThrow();
   });
 
@@ -152,7 +153,9 @@ describe('createAuthenticator', () => {
   });
 
   test('should fail when creating authenticator without params', () => {
-    expect(() => new Authenticator()).toThrow('Expected params');
+    // @ts-ignore 
+    // ts-ignore is used here to override typescript's type check in the constructor
+    // this test is still useful when the library is imported to a js file 
     expect(() => new Authenticator()).toThrow('Expected params');
   });
 
diff --git a/jest.config.js b/jest.config.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8cbf894
--- /dev/null
+++ b/jest.config.js
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+/** @type {import('ts-jest/dist/types').InitialOptionsTsJest} */
+module.exports = {
+  preset: 'ts-jest',
+  testEnvironment: 'node',
+};
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diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index b68e538..88b2b1c 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -8,11 +8,13 @@
   "description": "Cognito authentication made easy to protect your website with CloudFront and Lambda@Edge.",
   "author": "AWS Builder Labs <aws-builder-labs@amazon.com>",
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
-  "main": "index.js",
+  "main": "dist/index.js",
+  "types": "dist/index.d.ts",
   "files": [
-    "index.js"
+    "/dist"
   ],
   "scripts": {
+    "build": "tsc",
     "test": "jest --coverage"
   },
   "dependencies": {
@@ -21,8 +23,14 @@
     "pino": "^6.10.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "eslint": "^7.17.0",
-    "jest": "^26.6.3"
+    "@types/aws-lambda": "^8.10.89",
+    "@types/jest": "^27.4.0",
+    "@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin": "^5.9.1",
+    "@typescript-eslint/parser": "^5.9.1",
+    "eslint": "^7.32.0",
+    "jest": "^27.4.7",
+    "ts-jest": "^27.1.2",
+    "typescript": "^4.5.4"
   },
   "engines": {
     "node": ">=10.0.0"
diff --git a/index.js b/src/index.ts
similarity index 86%
rename from index.js
rename to src/index.ts
index 1e93f92..2bfdd18 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,33 @@
-const axios = require('axios');
-const querystring = require('querystring');
-const pino = require('pino');
-const awsJwtVerify = require('aws-jwt-verify');
+import axios from 'axios';
+import { parse, stringify } from 'querystring';
+import pino from 'pino';
+import { CognitoJwtVerifier } from 'aws-jwt-verify';
+import { CloudFrontRequestEvent } from 'aws-lambda';
 
-class Authenticator {
-  constructor(params) {
+interface AuthenticatorParams {
+  region: string;
+  userPoolId: string;
+  userPoolAppId: string;
+  userPoolAppSecret?: string;
+  userPoolDomain: string;
+  cookieExpirationDays?: number;
+  disableCookieDomain?: boolean;
+  logLevel?: 'fatal' | 'error' | 'warn' | 'info' | 'debug' | 'trace' | 'silent';
+}
+
+export class Authenticator {
+  _region: string;
+  _userPoolId: string;
+  _userPoolAppId: string;
+  _userPoolAppSecret: string;
+  _userPoolDomain: string;
+  _cookieExpirationDays: number;
+  _disableCookieDomain: boolean;
+  _cookieBase: string;
+  _logger;
+  _jwtVerifier;
+
+  constructor(params: AuthenticatorParams) {
     this._verifyParams(params);
     this._region = params.region;
     this._userPoolId = params.userPoolId;
@@ -18,7 +41,7 @@ class Authenticator {
       level: params.logLevel || 'silent', // Default to silent
       base: null, //Remove pid, hostname and name logging as not usefull for Lambda
     });
-    this._jwtVerifier = awsJwtVerify.CognitoJwtVerifier.create({
+    this._jwtVerifier = CognitoJwtVerifier.create({
       userPoolId: params.userPoolId,
       clientId: params.userPoolAppId,
       tokenUse: 'id',
@@ -57,18 +80,18 @@ class Authenticator {
     const authorization = this._userPoolAppSecret && Buffer.from(`${this._userPoolAppId}:${this._userPoolAppSecret}`).toString('base64');
     const request = {
       url: `https://${this._userPoolDomain}/oauth2/token`,
-      method: 'post',
+      method: 'POST',
       headers: {
         'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
         ...(authorization && {'Authorization': `Basic ${authorization}`}),
       },
-      data: querystring.stringify({
+      data: stringify({
         client_id:	this._userPoolAppId,
         code:	code,
         grant_type:	'authorization_code',
         redirect_uri:	redirectURI,
       }),
-    };
+    } as const;
     this._logger.debug({ msg: 'Fetching tokens from grant code...', request, code });
     return axios.request(request)
       .then(resp => {
@@ -93,8 +116,8 @@ class Authenticator {
     const username = decoded['cognito:username'];
     const usernameBase = `${this._cookieBase}.${username}`;
     const directives = (!this._disableCookieDomain) ? 
-      `Domain=${domain}; Expires=${new Date(new Date() * 1 + this._cookieExpirationDays * 864e+5)}; Secure` : 
-      `Expires=${new Date(new Date() * 1 + this._cookieExpirationDays * 864e+5)}; Secure`;
+      `Domain=${domain}; Expires=${new Date(Date.now() + this._cookieExpirationDays * 864e+5)}; Secure` :
+      `Expires=${new Date(Date.now() + this._cookieExpirationDays * 864e+5)}; Secure`;
     const response = {
       status: '302' ,
       headers: {
@@ -170,11 +193,11 @@ class Authenticator {
    * @param  {Object}  event Lambda@Edge event.
    * @return {Promise} CloudFront response.
    */
-  async handle(event) {
+  async handle(event: CloudFrontRequestEvent) {
     this._logger.debug({ msg: 'Handling Lambda@Edge event', event });
 
     const { request } = event.Records[0].cf;
-    const requestParams = querystring.parse(request.querystring);
+    const requestParams = parse(request.querystring);
     const cfDomain = request.headers.host[0].value;
     const redirectURI = `https://${cfDomain}`;
 
@@ -217,5 +240,3 @@ class Authenticator {
     }
   }
 }
-
-module.exports.Authenticator = Authenticator;
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..67a3fd0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    "module": "commonjs",
+    "target": "esnext",
+    "declaration": true,
+    "outDir": "./dist"
+  },
+  "include": [
+    "src/**/*"
+  ]
+}
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