diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ac10dfe528..ad7aa12883 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # gitignore
 
 node_modules
+.idea
 
 # Only apps should have lockfiles
 yarn.lock
diff --git a/linters/.jshintrc b/linters/.jshintrc
index a7a08a349e..3f21707c47 100644
--- a/linters/.jshintrc
+++ b/linters/.jshintrc
@@ -20,28 +20,25 @@
    * ENFORCING OPTIONS
    * =================
    */
-
-  // Force all variable names to use either camelCase style or UPPER_CASE
-  // with underscores.
-  "camelcase": true,
+   // Don't enforce code style since those rules will be deprecated in JSHint.
 
   // Prohibit use of == and != in favor of === and !==.
   "eqeqeq": true,
 
-  // Enforce tab width of 2 spaces.
-  "indent": 2,
+  // Require curly braces around blocks
+  "curly": true,
 
-  // Prohibit use of a variable before it is defined.
-  "latedef": true,
+  // Must explicitly check an object's items when looping with for ... in
+  "forin": true,
 
-  // Enforce line length to 100 characters
-  "maxlen": 100,
+  // Prohibit overwriting native prototype functions
+  "freeze": true,
 
-  // Require capitalized names for constructor functions.
-  "newcap": true,
+  // Prohibit use of a variable before it is defined.
+  "latedef": true,
 
-  // Enforce use of single quotation marks for strings.
-  "quotmark": "single",
+  // Prohibit use of arguments.caller, arguments.callee
+  "noarg": true,
 
   // Enforce placing 'use strict' at the top function scope
   "strict": true,
diff --git a/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/.babelrc b/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/.babelrc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e0aceaae1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/.babelrc
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+  "presets": ["airbnb"]
+}
diff --git a/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/.editorconfig b/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/.editorconfig
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2895e4735d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/.editorconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+root = true
+
+[*]
+indent_style = space
+indent_size = 4
+charset = utf-8
+trim_trailing_whitespace = true
+insert_final_newline = true
+end_of_line = lf
+# editorconfig-tools is unable to ignore longs strings or urls
+max_line_length = null
diff --git a/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/.eslintrc b/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/.eslintrc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..224149fda6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/.eslintrc
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+{
+  "extends": "./index.js",
+  "rules": {
+    // disable requiring trailing commas because it might be nice to revert to
+    // being JSON at some point, and I don't want to make big changes now.
+    "comma-dangle": 0
+  },
+}
diff --git a/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/CHANGELOG.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2fda72332e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+12.1.0 / 2017-12-13
+==================
+   - Initial commit; building off of `eslint-config-airbnb-base` package.
diff --git a/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/README.md b/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5cb653944d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+# eslint-config-npr-base
+
+This package provides NPR's base JS .eslintrc (without React plugins) as an extensible shared config.
+
+It extends Airbnb's base configuration with NPR's style guide.
+
+## Usage
+
+Our default export contains all of our ESLint rules, including ECMAScript 6+. It requires `eslint` and `eslint-plugin-import`.
+
+If you use yarn, run `npm info "@npr/eslint-config-npr-base@latest" peerDependencies` to list the peer dependencies and versions, then run `yarn add --dev <dependency>@<version>` for each listed peer dependency. See below for npm instructions.
+
+1. Install the correct versions of each package, which are listed by the command:
+
+    ```sh
+    npm info "@npr/eslint-config-npr-base@latest" peerDependencies
+    ```
+
+    Linux/OSX users can run
+    ```sh
+    (
+    export PKG=@npr/eslint-config-npr-base;
+    npm info "$PKG@latest" peerDependencies --json | command sed 's/[\{\},]//g ; s/: /@/g' | xargs npm install --save-dev "$PKG@latest"
+    )
+    ```
+
+    Which produces and runs a command like:
+
+    ```sh
+    npm install --save-dev @npr/eslint-config-npr-base eslint@^#.#.# eslint-plugin-import@^#.#.#
+    ```
+
+    Windows users can either install all the peer dependencies manually, or use the [install-peerdeps](https://github.com/nathanhleung/install-peerdeps) cli tool.
+
+    ```sh
+    npm install -g install-peerdeps
+    install-peerdeps --dev @npr/eslint-config-npr-base
+    ```
+
+    The cli will produce and run a command like:
+
+    ```sh
+    npm install --save-dev @npr/eslint-config-npr-base eslint@^#.#.# eslint-plugin-import@^#.#.#
+    ```
+
+2. Add `"extends": "@npr/eslint-config-npr-base"` to your .eslintrc.
diff --git a/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/index.js b/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/index.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9132bf19dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/index.js
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+module.exports = {
+    extends: [
+        'eslint-config-airbnb-base',
+        'eslint-config-airbnb-base/rules/strict',
+        './rules/general',
+    ].map(require.resolve),
+    parserOptions: {
+        ecmaVersion: 2017,
+        sourceType: 'module',
+        ecmaFeatures: {
+            experimentalObjectRestSpread: true,
+        },
+    },
+    rules: {
+        strict: 'error',
+    },
+};
diff --git a/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/package.json b/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..003a3efa9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+{
+    "name": "@npr/eslint-config-npr-base",
+    "version": "12.1.0",
+    "description": "NPR's base style guide for JavaScript",
+    "main": "index.js",
+    "scripts": {
+        "prelint": "editorconfig-tools check * rules/* test/*",
+        "lint": "eslint --report-unused-disable-directives .",
+        "tests-only": "babel-tape-runner ./test/test-*.js",
+        "prepublish": "(in-install || eslint-find-rules --unused) && (not-in-publish || npm test)",
+        "pretest": "npm run --silent lint",
+        "test": "npm run --silent tests-only"
+    },
+    "repository": {
+        "type": "git",
+        "url": "git+https://github.com/npr/javascript.git"
+    },
+    "keywords": [
+        "javascript",
+        "style"
+    ],
+    "author": "Stephen Thompson <apostrophest@gmail.com>",
+    "license": "UNLICENSED",
+    "bugs": {
+        "url": "https://github.com/npr/javascript/issues"
+    },
+    "homepage": "https://github.com/npr/javascript#readme",
+    "devDependencies": {
+        "babel-preset-airbnb": "^2.4.0",
+        "babel-tape-runner": "^2.0.1",
+        "editorconfig-tools": "^0.1.1",
+        "eslint": "^4.9.0",
+        "eslint-find-rules": "^3.1.1",
+        "eslint-plugin-import": "^2.7.0",
+        "in-publish": "^2.0.0",
+        "safe-publish-latest": "^1.1.1",
+        "tape": "^4.8.0"
+    },
+    "peerDependencies": {
+        "eslint": "^4.9.0",
+        "eslint-plugin-import": "^2.7.0"
+    },
+    "engines": {
+        "node": ">= 6"
+    },
+    "dependencies": {
+        "eslint-config-airbnb-base": "^12.1.0",
+        "eslint-restricted-globals": "^0.1.1"
+    }
+}
diff --git a/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/rules/general.js b/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/rules/general.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cb600cc891
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/rules/general.js
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+module.exports = {
+    rules: {
+        indent: [
+            'error',
+            4,
+            { SwitchCase: 1 }
+        ],
+        'class-methods-use-this': 'off',
+        'space-before-function-paren': [
+            'error',
+            { anonymous: 'always', named: 'never', asyncArrow: 'always' }
+        ],
+        'comma-dangle': [
+            'error',
+            'always-multiline'
+        ],
+        'max-len': [
+            'warn',
+            {
+                code: 110,
+                ignoreComments: true,
+                ignoreUrls: true
+            }
+        ],
+        'implicit-arrow-linebreak': 'off',
+        'import/exports-last': 'off',
+    }
+};
diff --git a/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/test/.eslintrc b/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/test/.eslintrc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5808be6186
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/test/.eslintrc
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+{
+  "rules": {
+    // disabled because I find it tedious to write tests while following this rule
+    "no-shadow": 0,
+    // tests uses `t` for tape
+    "id-length": [2, {"min": 2, "properties": "never", "exceptions": ["t"]}],
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/test/test-base.js b/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/test/test-base.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..aefbb5fe34
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/eslint-config-npr-base/test/test-base.js
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+import fs from 'fs';
+import path from 'path';
+import test from 'tape';
+
+import index from '../';
+
+const files = { ...{ index } }; // object spread is to test parsing
+
+fs.readdirSync(path.join(__dirname, '../rules')).forEach((name) => {
+    // eslint-disable-next-line import/no-dynamic-require
+    files[name] = require(`../rules/${name}`); // eslint-disable-line global-require
+});
+
+Object.keys(files).forEach(( // eslint-disable-line function-paren-newline
+    name, // trailing function comma is to test parsing
+) => { // eslint-disable-line function-paren-newline
+    const config = files[name];
+
+    test(`${name}: does not reference react`, (t) => {
+        t.plan(2);
+
+        // scan plugins for react and fail if it is found
+        const hasReactPlugin = Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(config, 'plugins') &&
+            config.plugins.indexOf('react') !== -1;
+        t.notOk(hasReactPlugin, 'there is no react plugin');
+
+        // scan rules for react/ and fail if any exist
+        const reactRuleIds = Object.keys(config.rules)
+            .filter(ruleId => ruleId.indexOf('react/') === 0);
+        t.deepEquals(reactRuleIds, [], 'there are no react/ rules');
+    });
+});
diff --git a/packages/eslint-config-npr-react/.babelrc b/packages/eslint-config-npr-react/.babelrc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e0aceaae1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/eslint-config-npr-react/.babelrc
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+  "presets": ["airbnb"]
+}
diff --git a/packages/eslint-config-npr-react/.editorconfig b/packages/eslint-config-npr-react/.editorconfig
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2895e4735d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/eslint-config-npr-react/.editorconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+root = true
+
+[*]
+indent_style = space
+indent_size = 4
+charset = utf-8
+trim_trailing_whitespace = true
+insert_final_newline = true
+end_of_line = lf
+# editorconfig-tools is unable to ignore longs strings or urls
+max_line_length = null
diff --git a/packages/eslint-config-npr-react/.eslintrc b/packages/eslint-config-npr-react/.eslintrc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..224149fda6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/eslint-config-npr-react/.eslintrc
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+{
+  "extends": "./index.js",
+  "rules": {
+    // disable requiring trailing commas because it might be nice to revert to
+    // being JSON at some point, and I don't want to make big changes now.
+    "comma-dangle": 0
+  },
+}
diff --git a/packages/eslint-config-npr-react/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/eslint-config-npr-react/CHANGELOG.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a3458a5035
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/eslint-config-npr-react/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+16.1.0 / 2017-12-13
+==================
+   - Initial commit; building off of `eslint-config-airbnb` package.
diff --git a/packages/eslint-config-npr-react/README.md b/packages/eslint-config-npr-react/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7b250bfc60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/eslint-config-npr-react/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+# eslint-config-npr-react
+
+This package provides NPR's JS .eslintrc with React plugins as an extensible shared config.
+
+It extends Airbnb's full configuration with NPR's style guide.
+
+## Usage
+
+Our default export contains all of our ESLint rules, including ECMAScript 6+.
+
+It requires `eslint`, `eslint-plugin-import`, `eslint-plugin-react`, and `eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y`. If you don't need React, see [eslint-config-npr-base](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@npr/eslint-config-npr-base).
+
+If you use yarn, run `npm info "@npr/eslint-config-npr-react@latest" peerDependencies` to list the peer dependencies and versions, then run `yarn add --dev <dependency>@<version>` for each listed peer dependency. See below for npm instructions.
+
+1. Install the correct versions of each package, which are listed by the command:
+
+    ```sh
+    npm info "@npr/eslint-config-npr-react@latest" peerDependencies
+    ```
+
+    Linux/OSX users can run
+
+    ```sh
+    (
+    export PKG=@npr/eslint-config-npr-react;
+    npm info "$PKG@latest" peerDependencies --json | command sed 's/[\{\},]//g ; s/: /@/g' | xargs npm install --save-dev "$PKG@latest"
+    )
+    ```
+
+    Which produces and runs a command like:
+
+    ```sh
+    npm install --save-dev @npr/eslint-config-npr-react eslint@^#.#.# eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y@^#.#.# eslint-plugin-import@^#.#.# eslint-plugin-react@^#.#.#
+    ```
+
+    Windows users can either install all the peer dependencies manually, or use the [install-peerdeps](https://github.com/nathanhleung/install-peerdeps) cli tool.
+
+    ```sh
+    npm install -g install-peerdeps
+    install-peerdeps --dev @npr/eslint-config-npr-react
+    ```
+
+    The cli will produce and run a command like:
+
+    ```sh
+    npm install --save-dev @npr/eslint-config-npr-react eslint@^#.#.# eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y@^#.#.# eslint-plugin-import@^#.#.# eslint-plugin-react@^#.#.#
+    ```
+
+2. Add `"extends": "@npr/esling-config-npr-react"` to your .eslintrc
diff --git a/packages/eslint-config-npr-react/index.js b/packages/eslint-config-npr-react/index.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..14e4304ae5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/eslint-config-npr-react/index.js
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+module.exports = {
+    extends: [
+        'eslint-config-airbnb',
+        '@npr/eslint-config-npr-base',
+        './rules/react',
+    ].map(require.resolve),
+    rules: {},
+};
diff --git a/packages/eslint-config-npr-react/package.json b/packages/eslint-config-npr-react/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2f17b8cc67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/eslint-config-npr-react/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+{
+    "name": "@npr/eslint-config-npr-react",
+    "version": "16.1.2",
+    "description": "NPR's React style guide for JavaScript",
+    "main": "index.js",
+    "scripts": {
+        "prelint": "editorconfig-tools check * rules/* test/*",
+        "lint": "eslint --report-unused-disable-directives .",
+        "tests-only": "babel-tape-runner ./test/test-*.js",
+        "prepublish": "(in-install || eslint-find-rules --unused) && (not-in-publish || npm test)",
+        "pretest": "npm run --silent lint",
+        "test": "npm run --silent tests-only"
+    },
+    "repository": {
+        "type": "git",
+        "url": "git+https://github.com/npr/javascript.git"
+    },
+    "keywords": [
+        "javascript",
+        "style"
+    ],
+    "author": "Stephen Thompson <apostrophest@gmail.com>",
+    "license": "UNLICENSED",
+    "bugs": {
+        "url": "https://github.com/npr/javascript/issues"
+    },
+    "homepage": "https://github.com/npr/javascript#readme",
+    "devDependencies": {
+        "babel-preset-airbnb": "^2.4.0",
+        "babel-tape-runner": "^2.0.1",
+        "editorconfig-tools": "^0.1.1",
+        "eslint": "^4.9.0",
+        "eslint-find-rules": "^3.1.1",
+        "eslint-plugin-import": "^2.7.0",
+        "in-publish": "^2.0.0",
+        "safe-publish-latest": "^1.1.1",
+        "tape": "^4.8.0"
+    },
+    "engines": {
+        "node": ">= 6"
+    },
+    "dependencies": {
+        "@npr/eslint-config-npr-base": "^12.1.0",
+        "eslint-config-airbnb": "^16.1.0"
+    }
+}
diff --git a/packages/eslint-config-npr-react/rules/react.js b/packages/eslint-config-npr-react/rules/react.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..48723be83a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/eslint-config-npr-react/rules/react.js
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+module.exports = {
+    rules: {
+        // Use our 4-space indent rules for JSX as well
+        'react/jsx-indent-props': ['error', 4],
+        'react/jsx-indent': ['error', 4],
+        // We may want to require .jsx extension for files with JSX in the future
+        'react/jsx-filename-extension': 'off',
+        // We should probably bump this up to error soon
+        'react/button-has-type': 'warn',
+        // We are not requiring that functional components destructure their props
+        // right now, but we can reevaluate in the future
+        'react/destructuring-assignment': 'off',
+        // I would love to have this turned on, but it is a little oversensitive.
+        // The following line is considered a violation even though the documentation
+        // does not even seem to be aware of a case like this:
+        // <h1>Here is the title</h1>
+        // That seems to pretty clearly be one JSX expression on one line...
+        'react/jsx-one-expression-per-line': 'off',
+        // This should be an error because violations can actually lead to bugs.
+        'react/no-access-state-in-setstate': 'error',
+        // I'd really like to have this on, but the parser seems to flag cases even when
+        // there is a clear htmlFor on a label that matches up with the ID of another
+        // element. Turn this on when it parses better.
+        'jsx-a11y/label-has-for': 'off',
+    }
+};
diff --git a/packages/eslint-config-npr-react/test/.eslintrc b/packages/eslint-config-npr-react/test/.eslintrc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5808be6186
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/eslint-config-npr-react/test/.eslintrc
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+{
+  "rules": {
+    // disabled because I find it tedious to write tests while following this rule
+    "no-shadow": 0,
+    // tests uses `t` for tape
+    "id-length": [2, {"min": 2, "properties": "never", "exceptions": ["t"]}],
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/eslint-config-npr-react/test/test-base.js b/packages/eslint-config-npr-react/test/test-base.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2