diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e69de29bb2d..506596fbbda 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+- Fixes an issue where `ext:dev:init` failed when Typescript was chosen.
diff --git a/templates/extensions/typescript/tsconfig.dev.json b/templates/extensions/typescript/tsconfig.dev.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7560eed4ca1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/extensions/typescript/tsconfig.dev.json
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+  "include": [
+    ".eslintrc.js"
+  ]
+}