diff --git a/create-app.ts b/create-app.ts
index 2e7f4c6ed6902d91a2017230ab7b7fa50cdc9820..65ff0a9f7cbda75dc85e1f57bd65f5bbc7d04c54 100644
--- a/create-app.ts
+++ b/create-app.ts
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ import { makeDir } from "./helpers/make-dir";
 
 import fs from "fs";
 import terminalLink from "terminal-link";
-import type { InstallTemplateArgs } from "./templates";
-import { installTemplate } from "./templates";
+import type { InstallTemplateArgs } from "./helpers";
+import { installTemplate } from "./helpers";
 
 export type InstallAppArgs = Omit<
   InstallTemplateArgs,
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ export async function createApp({
     });
     // copy readme for fullstack
     await fs.promises.copyFile(
-      path.join(__dirname, "templates", "README-fullstack.md"),
+      path.join(__dirname, "..", "templates", "README-fullstack.md"),
       path.join(root, "README.md"),
     );
   } else {
diff --git a/e2e/basic.spec.ts b/e2e/basic.spec.ts
index 861f5416c1ff4b34e7871f85104f989c69530d81..3e76f5267859a3ab4bbc0ceab981715734ca6c1d 100644
--- a/e2e/basic.spec.ts
+++ b/e2e/basic.spec.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import type {
   TemplateFramework,
   TemplateType,
   TemplateUI,
-} from "../templates";
+} from "../helpers";
 import { createTestDir, runApp, runCreateLlama, type AppType } from "./utils";
 
 const templateTypes: TemplateType[] = ["streaming", "simple"];
diff --git a/e2e/tsconfig.json b/e2e/tsconfig.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e45598cbae2c75c1440d718e6638bd5f0393e618
--- /dev/null
+++ b/e2e/tsconfig.json
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+{
+  "extends": "../../../tsconfig.json",
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    "tsBuildInfoFile": "./lib/.e2e.tsbuildinfo"
+  },
+  "include": ["./**/*.ts"],
+  "references": [
+    {
+      "path": ".."
+    }
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/templates/index.ts b/helpers/index.ts
similarity index 92%
rename from templates/index.ts
rename to helpers/index.ts
index 97a3a4b5fb1c0263224f0ab84e75a370247a3854..e4f3ddfa00859b8ce7749dc6b2c8185af3ccf8ac 100644
--- a/templates/index.ts
+++ b/helpers/index.ts
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
-import { copy } from "../helpers/copy";
-import { callPackageManager } from "../helpers/install";
+import { copy } from "./copy";
+import { callPackageManager } from "./install";
 
 import fs from "fs/promises";
 import path from "path";
 import { cyan } from "picocolors";
 
-import { COMMUNITY_OWNER, COMMUNITY_REPO } from "../helpers/constant";
-import { PackageManager } from "../helpers/get-pkg-manager";
-import { downloadAndExtractRepo } from "../helpers/repo";
+import { COMMUNITY_OWNER, COMMUNITY_REPO } from "./constant";
+import { PackageManager } from "./get-pkg-manager";
 import { installPythonTemplate } from "./python";
+import { downloadAndExtractRepo } from "./repo";
 import {
   InstallTemplateArgs,
   TemplateEngine,
@@ -71,7 +71,13 @@ const copyTestData = async (
   vectorDb?: TemplateVectorDB,
 ) => {
   if (engine === "context") {
-    const srcPath = path.join(__dirname, "components", "data");
+    const srcPath = path.join(
+      __dirname,
+      "..",
+      "templates",
+      "components",
+      "data",
+    );
     const destPath = path.join(root, "data");
     console.log(`\nCopying test data to ${cyan(destPath)}\n`);
     await copy("**", destPath, {
diff --git a/templates/python.ts b/helpers/python.ts
similarity index 94%
rename from templates/python.ts
rename to helpers/python.ts
index 9dba187639c0365d26849bf7df932954bf958279..3c631b6ee39603400b33487fb328f9cd6aaed0d2 100644
--- a/templates/python.ts
+++ b/helpers/python.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import fs from "fs/promises";
 import path from "path";
 import { cyan } from "picocolors";
 import { parse, stringify } from "smol-toml";
-import { copy } from "../helpers/copy";
+import { copy } from "./copy";
 import { InstallTemplateArgs, TemplateVectorDB } from "./types";
 
 interface Dependency {
@@ -101,7 +101,14 @@ export const installPythonTemplate = async ({
   "root" | "framework" | "template" | "engine" | "vectorDb"
 >) => {
   console.log("\nInitializing Python project with template:", template, "\n");
-  const templatePath = path.join(__dirname, "types", template, framework);
+  const templatePath = path.join(
+    __dirname,
+    "..",
+    "templates",
+    "types",
+    template,
+    framework,
+  );
   await copy("**", root, {
     parents: true,
     cwd: templatePath,
@@ -123,7 +130,7 @@ export const installPythonTemplate = async ({
   });
 
   if (engine === "context") {
-    const compPath = path.join(__dirname, "components");
+    const compPath = path.join(__dirname, "..", "templates", "components");
     const VectorDBPath = path.join(
       compPath,
       "vectordbs",
diff --git a/templates/types.ts b/helpers/types.ts
similarity index 100%
rename from templates/types.ts
rename to helpers/types.ts
diff --git a/templates/typescript.ts b/helpers/typescript.ts
similarity index 96%
rename from templates/typescript.ts
rename to helpers/typescript.ts
index df3c0b15b679405ebbb054303c5ab3732834e60b..9d498b406988379b35958e899d17596359825e4b 100644
--- a/templates/typescript.ts
+++ b/helpers/typescript.ts
@@ -46,7 +46,14 @@ export const installTSTemplate = async ({
    * Copy the template files to the target directory.
    */
   console.log("\nInitializing project with template:", template, "\n");
-  const templatePath = path.join(__dirname, "types", template, framework);
+  const templatePath = path.join(
+    __dirname,
+    "..",
+    "templates",
+    "types",
+    template,
+    framework,
+  );
   const copySource = ["**"];
   if (!eslint) copySource.push("!eslintrc.json");
 
@@ -80,7 +87,7 @@ export const installTSTemplate = async ({
    * Copy the selected chat engine files to the target directory and reference it.
    */
   let relativeEngineDestPath;
-  const compPath = path.join(__dirname, "components");
+  const compPath = path.join(__dirname, "..", "templates", "components");
   if (engine && (framework === "express" || framework === "nextjs")) {
     console.log("\nUsing chat engine:", engine, "\n");
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index b115e7014e8c13eda59048647b456a11919cd4fc..495bb2b4e5f6173924eaa00c957926fd14d56d96 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
     "create-llama": "./dist/index.js"
   },
   "files": [
-    "dist"
+    "./dist/index.js",
+    "./templates"
   ],
   "scripts": {
     "clean": "rimraf --glob ./dist ./templates/**/__pycache__ ./templates/**/node_modules ./templates/**/poetry.lock",
diff --git a/questions.ts b/questions.ts
index b144bfd706de19546a888e279fba4784adfcff43..0694d7afbc9a6caa243a01f6ae2d7eca45ac9c15 100644
--- a/questions.ts
+++ b/questions.ts
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ import path from "path";
 import { blue, green } from "picocolors";
 import prompts from "prompts";
 import { InstallAppArgs } from "./create-app";
+import { TemplateFramework } from "./helpers";
 import { COMMUNITY_OWNER, COMMUNITY_REPO } from "./helpers/constant";
 import { getRepoRootFolders } from "./helpers/repo";
-import { TemplateFramework } from "./templates";
 
 export type QuestionArgs = Omit<InstallAppArgs, "appPath" | "packageManager">;
 
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index e4edad9e127c7de102ca7bdd6b243168a83bbc20..8c2c4944ee39a6253675fd140f35579aab468359 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -1,11 +1,19 @@
 {
+  "extends": "../../tsconfig.json",
   "compilerOptions": {
     "target": "es2019",
     "moduleResolution": "node",
     "strict": true,
     "resolveJsonModule": true,
     "esModuleInterop": true,
-    "skipLibCheck": false
+    "skipLibCheck": true
   },
-  "exclude": ["templates", "dist"]
+  "include": [
+    "create-app.ts",
+    "index.ts",
+    "./helpers",
+    "questions.ts",
+    "package.json"
+  ],
+  "exclude": ["dist"]
 }