diff --git a/.eslintignore b/.eslintignore
index dc0ec529e..45a530480 100644
--- a/.eslintignore
+++ b/.eslintignore
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@
 **/fixtures/*
 **/locale/*
 docs/*
+README.md
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.eslintrc b/.eslintrc
index 494d7fefb..95117785a 100644
--- a/.eslintrc
+++ b/.eslintrc
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "env": {
     "jest/globals": true
   },
+  "parser": "@typescript-eslint/parser",
   "parserOptions": {
     "ecmaVersion": 2020,
     "sourceType": "module",
@@ -10,7 +11,7 @@
     }
   },
   "extends": ["plugin:import/errors", "plugin:import/warnings"],
-  "plugins": ["promise", "import", "react", "jest"],
+  "plugins": ["promise", "import", "react", "jest", "@typescript-eslint"],
   "settings": {
     "import/extensions": [".js", ".jsx", ".ts", ".tsx"],
     "import/parsers": {
@@ -24,6 +25,7 @@
   },
   "rules": {
     "no-duplicate-imports": "off",
-    "react/display-name": "off"
+    "react/display-name": "off",
+    "@typescript-eslint/consistent-type-definitions": ["error", "type"]
   }
 }
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 80858bd20..a382b4300 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
     "watch": "cross-env NODE_ICU_DATA=node_modules/full-icu jest -c scripts/jest/config.unit.js --watch",
     "watch:integration": "cross-env NODE_ICU_DATA=node_modules/full-icu jest -c scripts/jest/config.integration.js --watch",
     "lint:types": "tsc",
-    "lint:eslint": "eslint packages/",
+    "lint:eslint": "eslint packages/**",
     "lint": "yarn lint:eslint; yarn lint:types",
     "release": "node ./scripts/release.js",
     "release:integration": "node ./scripts/integration.js",
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
     "@types/jest": "^25.2.1",
     "@types/ramda": "^0.27.3",
     "@types/react": "^16.9.34",
+    "@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin": "^2.28.0",
     "@typescript-eslint/parser": "^2.28.0",
     "babel-code-frame": "^6.26.0",
     "babel-core": "7.0.0-bridge.0",
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/api/catalog.ts b/packages/cli/src/api/catalog.ts
index 8998022db..cc10ff47f 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/api/catalog.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/api/catalog.ts
@@ -23,16 +23,16 @@ const NAME = "{name}"
 const LOCALE = "{locale}"
 const PATHSEP = "/" // force posix everywhere
 
-export interface MakeOptions extends CliExtractOptions {
+export type MakeOptions = CliExtractOptions & {
   projectType?: string
   orderBy?: OrderBy
 }
 
-export interface MergeOptions {
+export type MergeOptions = {
   overwrite: boolean
 }
 
-export interface GetTranslationsOptions {
+export type GetTranslationsOptions = {
   sourceLocale: string
   fallbackLocale: string
 }
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/api/compile.ts b/packages/cli/src/api/compile.ts
index 06740062e..935646364 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/api/compile.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/api/compile.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import pseudoLocalize from "./pseudoLocalize"
 
 export type CompiledCatalogNamespace = "cjs" | "es" | string
 
-export interface CreateCompileCatalogOptions {
+export type CreateCompileCatalogOptions = {
   strict?: boolean
   namespace?: CompiledCatalogNamespace
   pseudoLocale?: string
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/api/extractors/types.ts b/packages/cli/src/api/extractors/types.ts
index 382c1d281..af9f07cea 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/api/extractors/types.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/api/extractors/types.ts
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ export type ExtractorType = {
   extract(filename: string, targetDir: string, options?: ExtractOptions): void
 }
 
-export interface BabelOptions {
+export type BabelOptions = {
   plugins?: Array<string>
   presets?: Array<string>
 }
 
-export interface ExtractOptions {
+export type ExtractOptions = {
   projectType?: string
   babelOptions?: BabelOptions
 }
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/api/formats/index.ts b/packages/cli/src/api/formats/index.ts
index ce87605f4..9a4b7cb60 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/api/formats/index.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/api/formats/index.ts
@@ -6,12 +6,12 @@ import { CatalogType } from "../types"
 
 const formats: { [key: string]: CatalogFormat } = { lingui, minimal, po, csv }
 
-export interface CatalogFormatOptions {
+export type CatalogFormatOptions = {
   locale: string
   origins: false
 }
 
-export interface CatalogFormat {
+export type CatalogFormat = {
   catalogExtension: string
   write(
     filename: string,
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/api/types.ts b/packages/cli/src/api/types.ts
index bd72e5fcc..bb55ce02e 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/api/types.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/api/types.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ type Maybe<T> = T | null | undefined
 
 export type IdempotentResult<T> = [boolean, Maybe<T>] // [ created, result ]
 
-export interface ExtractedMessageType {
+export type ExtractedMessageType = {
   message?: string
   origin: Array<[number, string]>
   comment?: string
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ export interface ExtractedMessageType {
   flags?: Array<string>
 }
 
-export interface MessageType extends ExtractedMessageType {
+export type MessageType = ExtractedMessageType & {
   translation: string
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/lingui-extract.ts b/packages/cli/src/lingui-extract.ts
index ff3ef720d..00fb3d423 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/lingui-extract.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/lingui-extract.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 import chalk from "chalk"
 import program from "commander"
 
-import { getConfig } from "@lingui/conf"
-import { LinguiConfig } from "@lingui/conf"
+import { getConfig, LinguiConfig } from "@lingui/conf"
 
 import { getCatalogs } from "./api/catalog"
 
diff --git a/packages/core/src/i18n.ts b/packages/core/src/i18n.ts
index e8fb981bb..ed35c19b5 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/i18n.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/i18n.ts
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ export type Messages = Record<string, CompiledMessage>
 
 export type AllMessages = Record<Locale, Messages>
 
-export interface MessageDescriptor {
+export type MessageDescriptor = {
   id?: string
   comment?: string
   message?: string
diff --git a/packages/macro/index.d.ts b/packages/macro/index.d.ts
index efb3f7e9e..e85c5d3d3 100644
--- a/packages/macro/index.d.ts
+++ b/packages/macro/index.d.ts
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-import { ComponentType, ReactNode } from "react"
-import { MessageDescriptor } from "@lingui/core"
-import { TransRenderType } from "@lingui/react"
+import type { ComponentType, ReactNode } from "react"
+import type { MessageDescriptor } from "@lingui/core"
+import type { TransRenderType } from "@lingui/react"
 
 export function t(
   literals: TemplateStringsArray,
   ...placeholders: any[]
 ): string
 
-export interface ChoiceOptions<T = string> {
+export type ChoiceOptions<T = string> = {
   offset?: number
   zero?: T
   one?: T
@@ -26,20 +26,21 @@ export function defineMessages<M extends Record<string, MessageDescriptor>>(
 ): M
 export function defineMessage(descriptor: MessageDescriptor): MessageDescriptor
 
-export interface TransProps {
+export type TransProps = {
   id?: string
   comment?: string
   render?: TransRenderType
 }
 
-export interface ChoiceProps extends TransProps, ChoiceOptions<ReactNode> {
+export type ChoiceProps = {
   value?: string | number
-}
+} & TransProps &
+  ChoiceOptions<ReactNode>
 
-export interface SelectProps extends TransProps {
+export type SelectProps = {
   value?: string
   other?: ReactNode
-}
+} & TransProps
 
 export const Trans: ComponentType<TransProps>
 export const Plural: ComponentType<ChoiceProps>
diff --git a/packages/react/src/I18nProvider.tsx b/packages/react/src/I18nProvider.tsx
index cbcd1fd86..1a8a6c847 100644
--- a/packages/react/src/I18nProvider.tsx
+++ b/packages/react/src/I18nProvider.tsx
@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@ import React, { FunctionComponent } from "react"
 import { I18n } from "@lingui/core"
 import { TransRenderType } from "./Trans"
 
-interface I18nContext {
+type I18nContext = {
   i18n: I18n
   defaultRender?: TransRenderType
 }
 
-export interface I18nProviderProps extends I18nContext {}
+export type I18nProviderProps = I18nContext
 
 const LinguiContext = React.createContext<I18nContext>(null)
 
diff --git a/packages/react/src/Trans.tsx b/packages/react/src/Trans.tsx
index 41000a040..dad348b8e 100644
--- a/packages/react/src/Trans.tsx
+++ b/packages/react/src/Trans.tsx
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import React from "react"
 import { useLingui } from "./I18nProvider"
 import { formatElements } from "./format"
 
-export interface TransRenderProps {
+export type TransRenderProps = {
   id: string
   translation: React.ReactNode
   message: string | null
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ export type TransRenderType =
   | React.ElementType<TransRenderProps>
   | React.ReactElement
 
-export interface TransProps {
+export type TransProps = {
   id: string
   message?: string
   values: Object
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 550476a26..121aabe84 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -1537,6 +1537,16 @@
   dependencies:
     "@types/yargs-parser" "*"
 
+"@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin@^2.28.0":
+  version "2.33.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin/-/eslint-plugin-2.33.0.tgz#d6c8319d5011b4783bb3d2dadf105d8bdd499bd5"
+  integrity sha512-QV6P32Btu1sCI/kTqjTNI/8OpCYyvlGjW5vD8MpTIg+HGE5S88HtT1G+880M4bXlvXj/NjsJJG0aGcVh0DdbeQ==
+  dependencies:
+    "@typescript-eslint/experimental-utils" "2.33.0"
+    functional-red-black-tree "^1.0.1"
+    regexpp "^3.0.0"
+    tsutils "^3.17.1"
+
 "@typescript-eslint/experimental-utils@2.28.0", "@typescript-eslint/experimental-utils@^2.5.0":
   version "2.28.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@typescript-eslint/experimental-utils/-/experimental-utils-2.28.0.tgz#1fd0961cd8ef6522687b4c562647da6e71f8833d"
@@ -1547,6 +1557,16 @@
     eslint-scope "^5.0.0"
     eslint-utils "^2.0.0"
 
+"@typescript-eslint/experimental-utils@2.33.0":
+  version "2.33.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@typescript-eslint/experimental-utils/-/experimental-utils-2.33.0.tgz#000f1e5f344fbea1323dc91cc174805d75f99a03"
+  integrity sha512-qzPM2AuxtMrRq78LwyZa8Qn6gcY8obkIrBs1ehqmQADwkYzTE1Pb4y2W+U3rE/iFkSWcWHG2LS6MJfj6SmHApg==
+  dependencies:
+    "@types/json-schema" "^7.0.3"
+    "@typescript-eslint/typescript-estree" "2.33.0"
+    eslint-scope "^5.0.0"
+    eslint-utils "^2.0.0"
+
 "@typescript-eslint/parser@^2.28.0":
   version "2.28.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@typescript-eslint/parser/-/parser-2.28.0.tgz#bb761286efd2b0714761cab9d0ee5847cf080385"
@@ -1570,6 +1590,19 @@
     semver "^6.3.0"
     tsutils "^3.17.1"
 
+"@typescript-eslint/typescript-estree@2.33.0":
+  version "2.33.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@typescript-eslint/typescript-estree/-/typescript-estree-2.33.0.tgz#33504c050ccafd38f397a645d4e9534d2eccbb5c"
+  integrity sha512-d8rY6/yUxb0+mEwTShCQF2zYQdLlqihukNfG9IUlLYz5y1CH6G/9XYbrxQLq3Z14RNvkCC6oe+OcFlyUpwUbkg==
+  dependencies:
+    debug "^4.1.1"
+    eslint-visitor-keys "^1.1.0"
+    glob "^7.1.6"
+    is-glob "^4.0.1"
+    lodash "^4.17.15"
+    semver "^7.3.2"
+    tsutils "^3.17.1"
+
 "@webassemblyjs/ast@1.9.0":
   version "1.9.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@webassemblyjs/ast/-/ast-1.9.0.tgz#bd850604b4042459a5a41cd7d338cbed695ed964"