diff --git a/.eslintrc.json b/.eslintrc.json
index 7eb95650fb..0262af06a9 100644
--- a/.eslintrc.json
+++ b/.eslintrc.json
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@
             "files": ["**/*.ts"],
             "parser": "@typescript-eslint/parser",
             "parserOptions": {
-                "project": "static/js/tsconfig.json"
+                "project": "tsconfig.json"
             },
             "plugins": ["@typescript-eslint"],
             "rules": {
diff --git a/tools/lint b/tools/lint
index 792479d0ac..9a5f1e6280 100755
--- a/tools/lint
+++ b/tools/lint
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ def run():
     linter_config.external_linter('mypy', command, ['py'], pass_targets=False,
                                   description="Static type checker for Python (config: mypy.ini)")
     linter_config.external_linter('tsc', ['tools/run-tsc'], ['ts'], pass_targets=False,
-                                  description="TypeScript compiler (config: static/js/tsconfig.json)")
+                                  description="TypeScript compiler (config: tsconfig.json)")
     linter_config.external_linter('yarn-deduplicate', ['tools/run-yarn-deduplicate'], ['lock'],
                                   pass_targets=False,
                                   description="Shares duplicate packages in yarn.lock")
diff --git a/tools/run-tsc b/tools/run-tsc
index d6bb801345..8d0f6d5bcb 100755
--- a/tools/run-tsc
+++ b/tools/run-tsc
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 ZULIP_PATH="$(dirname "$0")/.."
-exec "$ZULIP_PATH/node_modules/.bin/tsc" --project "$ZULIP_PATH/static/js" "$@"
+exec "$ZULIP_PATH/node_modules/.bin/tsc" --project "$ZULIP_PATH" "$@"
diff --git a/static/js/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
similarity index 89%
rename from static/js/tsconfig.json
rename to tsconfig.json
index 8be0995305..51de28b6e2 100644
--- a/static/js/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
     "compilerOptions": {
         "baseUrl": ".",
         "paths": {
-            "*": ["types/*"],
+            "*": ["static/js/types/*"],
         },
-        "typeRoots": ["types"],
+        "typeRoots": ["static/js/types"],
 
         /* Typescript 3.4 added the --incremental flag but its API is not
          * currently public so ts-loader cannot use it yet.
@@ -33,6 +33,6 @@
         "noFallthroughCasesInSwitch": true,
     },
     "exclude": [
-        "types",
+        "static/js/types",
     ],
 }