diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index 19d7f89a..1713ec3d 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
         "pretty": true,
         "preserveConstEnums": true,
         "removeComments": false,
+        "skipLibCheck": true, // Avoid the compile error with office-ui-fabric-react
         "sourceMap": true,
         "strictNullChecks": true,
         "suppressImplicitAnyIndexErrors": false,