diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3c3629e..de4d1f0 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
+dist
 node_modules
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7bed9fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+This tool is used for fetching releases from SWTOR's patch server CDN and installing them.
+
+# Dependencies
+For this tool to work, ```tsc``` must be globally available, e.g. by running:
+
+```bash
+npm install -g typescript
+```
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 07443d8..107a0e4 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 {
   "name": "patcher",
-  "main": "index.js",
+  "main": "dist/index.js",
   "scripts": {
+    "start": "tsc && node dist/index.js",
     "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b9d3e23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+console.log('Hello world!');
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index e69de29..09dd67a 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    //settings:
+    "baseUrl": ".",
+    "inlineSourceMap": true,
+    "module": "ES2015",
+    "moduleResolution": "node",
+    "newLine": "lf",
+    "outDir": "dist",
+    "paths": {
+      "*": [
+        "node_modules/*"
+      ]
+    },
+    "strict": true,
+    "target": "es2018",
+  },
+  "include": [
+    "src/**/*"
+  ]
+}