diff --git a/packages/react-dev-utils/WebpackDevServerUtils.js b/packages/react-dev-utils/WebpackDevServerUtils.js
index 67f6d4164f7..67a1a45e3a6 100644
--- a/packages/react-dev-utils/WebpackDevServerUtils.js
+++ b/packages/react-dev-utils/WebpackDevServerUtils.js
@@ -17,10 +17,22 @@ const inquirer = require('inquirer');
 const clearConsole = require('./clearConsole');
 const formatWebpackMessages = require('./formatWebpackMessages');
 const getProcessForPort = require('./getProcessForPort');
-const typescriptFormatter = require('./typescriptFormatter');
-const forkTsCheckerWebpackPlugin = require('fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin');
 
 const isInteractive = process.stdout.isTTY;
+let handleCompile;
+
+// You can safely remove this after ejecting.
+// We only use this block for testing of Create React App itself:
+const isSmokeTest = process.argv.some(arg => arg.indexOf('--smoke-test') > -1);
+if (isSmokeTest) {
+  handleCompile = (err, stats) => {
+    if (err || stats.hasErrors() || stats.hasWarnings()) {
+      process.exit(1);
+    } else {
+      process.exit(0);
+    }
+  };
+}
 
 function prepareUrls(protocol, host, port) {
   const formatUrl = hostname =>
@@ -101,20 +113,12 @@ function printInstructions(appName, urls, useYarn) {
   console.log();
 }
 
-function createCompiler(
-  webpack,
-  config,
-  appName,
-  urls,
-  useYarn,
-  useTypeScript,
-  devSocket
-) {
+function createCompiler(webpack, config, appName, urls, useYarn) {
   // "Compiler" is a low-level interface to Webpack.
   // It lets us listen to some events and provide our own custom messages.
   let compiler;
   try {
-    compiler = webpack(config);
+    compiler = webpack(config, handleCompile);
   } catch (err) {
     console.log(chalk.red('Failed to compile.'));
     console.log();
@@ -135,35 +139,10 @@ function createCompiler(
   });
 
   let isFirstCompile = true;
-  let tsMessagesPromise;
-  let tsMessagesResolver;
-
-  if (useTypeScript) {
-    compiler.hooks.beforeCompile.tap('beforeCompile', () => {
-      tsMessagesPromise = new Promise(resolve => {
-        tsMessagesResolver = msgs => resolve(msgs);
-      });
-    });
-
-    forkTsCheckerWebpackPlugin
-      .getCompilerHooks(compiler)
-      .receive.tap('afterTypeScriptCheck', (diagnostics, lints) => {
-        const allMsgs = [...diagnostics, ...lints];
-        const format = message =>
-          `${message.file}\n${typescriptFormatter(message, true)}`;
-
-        tsMessagesResolver({
-          errors: allMsgs.filter(msg => msg.severity === 'error').map(format),
-          warnings: allMsgs
-            .filter(msg => msg.severity === 'warning')
-            .map(format),
-        });
-      });
-  }
 
   // "done" event fires when Webpack has finished recompiling the bundle.
   // Whether or not you have warnings or errors, you will get this event.
-  compiler.hooks.done.tap('done', async stats => {
+  compiler.hooks.done.tap('done', stats => {
     if (isInteractive) {
       clearConsole();
     }
@@ -173,43 +152,9 @@ function createCompiler(
     // them in a readable focused way.
     // We only construct the warnings and errors for speed:
     // https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/4492#issuecomment-421959548
-    const statsData = stats.toJson({
-      all: false,
-      warnings: true,
-      errors: true,
-    });
-
-    if (useTypeScript && statsData.errors.length === 0) {
-      const delayedMsg = setTimeout(() => {
-        console.log(
-          chalk.yellow(
-            'Files successfully emitted, waiting for typecheck results...'
-          )
-        );
-      }, 100);
-
-      const messages = await tsMessagesPromise;
-      clearTimeout(delayedMsg);
-      statsData.errors.push(...messages.errors);
-      statsData.warnings.push(...messages.warnings);
-
-      // Push errors and warnings into compilation result
-      // to show them after page refresh triggered by user.
-      stats.compilation.errors.push(...messages.errors);
-      stats.compilation.warnings.push(...messages.warnings);
-
-      if (messages.errors.length > 0) {
-        devSocket.errors(messages.errors);
-      } else if (messages.warnings.length > 0) {
-        devSocket.warnings(messages.warnings);
-      }
-
-      if (isInteractive) {
-        clearConsole();
-      }
-    }
-
-    const messages = formatWebpackMessages(statsData);
+    const messages = formatWebpackMessages(
+      stats.toJson({ all: false, warnings: true, errors: true })
+    );
     const isSuccessful = !messages.errors.length && !messages.warnings.length;
     if (isSuccessful) {
       console.log(chalk.green('Compiled successfully!'));
@@ -249,27 +194,6 @@ function createCompiler(
       );
     }
   });
-
-  // You can safely remove this after ejecting.
-  // We only use this block for testing of Create React App itself:
-  const isSmokeTest = process.argv.some(
-    arg => arg.indexOf('--smoke-test') > -1
-  );
-  if (isSmokeTest) {
-    compiler.hooks.failed.tap('smokeTest', async () => {
-      await tsMessagesPromise;
-      process.exit(1);
-    });
-    compiler.hooks.done.tap('smokeTest', async stats => {
-      await tsMessagesPromise;
-      if (stats.hasErrors() || stats.hasWarnings()) {
-        process.exit(1);
-      } else {
-        process.exit(0);
-      }
-    });
-  }
-
   return compiler;
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/react-dev-utils/typescriptFormatter.js b/packages/react-dev-utils/typescriptFormatter.js
index 3a33b37a427..2d011fc7e71 100644
--- a/packages/react-dev-utils/typescriptFormatter.js
+++ b/packages/react-dev-utils/typescriptFormatter.js
@@ -45,15 +45,12 @@ function formatter(message, useColors) {
   }
 
   const severity = hasGetters ? message.getSeverity() : message.severity;
-  const types = { diagnostic: 'TypeScript', lint: 'TSLint' };
 
   return [
-    messageColor.bold(`${types[message.type]} ${severity.toLowerCase()}: `) +
+    messageColor.bold(`Type ${severity.toLowerCase()}: `) +
       (hasGetters ? message.getContent() : message.content) +
       '  ' +
-      messageColor.underline(
-        (message.type === 'lint' ? 'Rule: ' : 'TS') + message.code
-      ),
+      messageColor.underline(`TS${message.code}`),
     '',
     frame,
   ].join(os.EOL);
diff --git a/packages/react-dev-utils/webpackHotDevClient.js b/packages/react-dev-utils/webpackHotDevClient.js
index 050ce2a6351..cc7dc61684b 100644
--- a/packages/react-dev-utils/webpackHotDevClient.js
+++ b/packages/react-dev-utils/webpackHotDevClient.js
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ function handleSuccess() {
     tryApplyUpdates(function onHotUpdateSuccess() {
       // Only dismiss it when we're sure it's a hot update.
       // Otherwise it would flicker right before the reload.
-      tryDismissErrorOverlay();
+      ErrorOverlay.dismissBuildError();
     });
   }
 }
@@ -140,15 +140,19 @@ function handleWarnings(warnings) {
     }
   }
 
-  printWarnings();
-
   // Attempt to apply hot updates or reload.
   if (isHotUpdate) {
     tryApplyUpdates(function onSuccessfulHotUpdate() {
+      // Only print warnings if we aren't refreshing the page.
+      // Otherwise they'll disappear right away anyway.
+      printWarnings();
       // Only dismiss it when we're sure it's a hot update.
       // Otherwise it would flicker right before the reload.
-      tryDismissErrorOverlay();
+      ErrorOverlay.dismissBuildError();
     });
+  } else {
+    // Print initial warnings immediately.
+    printWarnings();
   }
 }
 
@@ -179,12 +183,6 @@ function handleErrors(errors) {
   // We will reload on next success instead.
 }
 
-function tryDismissErrorOverlay() {
-  if (!hasCompileErrors) {
-    ErrorOverlay.dismissBuildError();
-  }
-}
-
 // There is a newer version of the code available.
 function handleAvailableHash(hash) {
   // Update last known compilation hash.
diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.js b/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.js
index 9781875bd30..71c0b750f83 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.js
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.js
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ const getCSSModuleLocalIdent = require('react-dev-utils/getCSSModuleLocalIdent')
 const paths = require('./paths');
 const getClientEnvironment = require('./env');
 const ModuleNotFoundPlugin = require('react-dev-utils/ModuleNotFoundPlugin');
-const ForkTsCheckerWebpackPlugin = require('fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin');
+const ForkTsCheckerWebpackPlugin = require('fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin-alt');
 const typescriptFormatter = require('react-dev-utils/typescriptFormatter');
 // @remove-on-eject-begin
 const getCacheIdentifier = require('react-dev-utils/getCacheIdentifier');
@@ -625,10 +625,17 @@ module.exports = function(webpackEnv) {
           typescript: resolve.sync('typescript', {
             basedir: paths.appNodeModules,
           }),
-          async: isEnvDevelopment,
-          useTypescriptIncrementalApi: true,
+          async: false,
           checkSyntacticErrors: true,
           tsconfig: paths.appTsConfig,
+          compilerOptions: {
+            module: 'esnext',
+            moduleResolution: 'node',
+            resolveJsonModule: true,
+            isolatedModules: true,
+            noEmit: true,
+            jsx: 'preserve',
+          },
           reportFiles: [
             '**',
             '!**/*.json',
@@ -639,8 +646,7 @@ module.exports = function(webpackEnv) {
           ],
           watch: paths.appSrc,
           silent: true,
-          // The formatter is invoked directly in WebpackDevServerUtils during development
-          formatter: isEnvProduction ? typescriptFormatter : undefined,
+          formatter: typescriptFormatter,
         }),
     ].filter(Boolean),
     // Some libraries import Node modules but don't use them in the browser.
diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/package.json b/packages/react-scripts/package.json
index 886d5f4b0c1..addee6d0b1f 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/package.json
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/package.json
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
     "eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y": "6.1.2",
     "eslint-plugin-react": "7.12.4",
     "file-loader": "2.0.0",
-    "fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin": "1.0.0-alpha.6",
+    "fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin-alt": "0.4.14",
     "fs-extra": "7.0.1",
     "html-webpack-plugin": "4.0.0-alpha.2",
     "identity-obj-proxy": "3.0.0",
diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/scripts/start.js b/packages/react-scripts/scripts/start.js
index 6ad020c9d46..852e6b8fb44 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/scripts/start.js
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/scripts/start.js
@@ -94,24 +94,9 @@ checkBrowsers(paths.appPath, isInteractive)
     const config = configFactory('development');
     const protocol = process.env.HTTPS === 'true' ? 'https' : 'http';
     const appName = require(paths.appPackageJson).name;
-    const useTypeScript = fs.existsSync(paths.appTsConfig);
     const urls = prepareUrls(protocol, HOST, port);
-    const devSocket = {
-      warnings: warnings =>
-        devServer.sockWrite(devServer.sockets, 'warnings', warnings),
-      errors: errors =>
-        devServer.sockWrite(devServer.sockets, 'errors', errors),
-    };
     // Create a webpack compiler that is configured with custom messages.
-    const compiler = createCompiler(
-      webpack,
-      config,
-      appName,
-      urls,
-      useYarn,
-      useTypeScript,
-      devSocket
-    );
+    const compiler = createCompiler(webpack, config, appName, urls, useYarn);
     // Load proxy config
     const proxySetting = require(paths.appPackageJson).proxy;
     const proxyConfig = prepareProxy(proxySetting, paths.appPublic);
diff --git a/test/fixtures/typescript-typecheck/.disable-pnp b/test/fixtures/typescript-typecheck/.disable-pnp
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2d..00000000000
diff --git a/test/fixtures/typescript-typecheck/index.test.js b/test/fixtures/typescript-typecheck/index.test.js
deleted file mode 100644
index c4978c735e9..00000000000
--- a/test/fixtures/typescript-typecheck/index.test.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-const testSetup = require('../__shared__/test-setup');
-const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
-
-const expectedErrorMsg = `Argument of type '123' is not assignable to parameter of type 'string'`;
-
-test('shows error overlay in browser', async () => {
-  const { port, done } = await testSetup.scripts.start();
-
-  const browser = await puppeteer.launch({ headless: true });
-  try {
-    const page = await browser.newPage();
-    await page.goto(`http://localhost:${port}/`);
-    await page.waitForSelector('iframe', { timeout: 5000 });
-    const overlayMsg = await page.evaluate(() => {
-      const overlay = document.querySelector('iframe').contentWindow;
-      return overlay.document.body.innerHTML;
-    });
-    expect(overlayMsg).toContain(expectedErrorMsg);
-  } finally {
-    browser.close();
-    done();
-  }
-});
-
-test('shows error in console (dev mode)', async () => {
-  const { stderr } = await testSetup.scripts.start({ smoke: true });
-  expect(stderr).toContain(expectedErrorMsg);
-});
-
-test('shows error in console (prod mode)', async () => {
-  const { stderr } = await testSetup.scripts.build();
-  expect(stderr).toContain(expectedErrorMsg);
-});
diff --git a/test/fixtures/typescript-typecheck/package.json b/test/fixtures/typescript-typecheck/package.json
deleted file mode 100644
index a6c00267c54..00000000000
--- a/test/fixtures/typescript-typecheck/package.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "dependencies": {
-    "@types/react": "*",
-    "@types/react-dom": "*",
-    "react": "*",
-    "react-dom": "*",
-    "typescript": "3.1.3"
-  }
-}
diff --git a/test/fixtures/typescript-typecheck/src/App.tsx b/test/fixtures/typescript-typecheck/src/App.tsx
deleted file mode 100644
index 75924d78b0e..00000000000
--- a/test/fixtures/typescript-typecheck/src/App.tsx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-import * as React from 'react';
-
-class App extends React.Component {
-  render() {
-    return <div>{format(123)}</div>;
-  }
-}
-
-function format(value: string) {
-  return value;
-}
-
-export default App;
diff --git a/test/fixtures/typescript-typecheck/src/index.tsx b/test/fixtures/typescript-typecheck/src/index.tsx
deleted file mode 100644
index bea6ed52237..00000000000
--- a/test/fixtures/typescript-typecheck/src/index.tsx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-import * as React from 'react';
-import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
-import App from './App';
-
-ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('root'));