diff --git a/backend/src/federation/@types/@hyperswarm__dht/index.d.ts b/backend/src/federation/@types/@hyperswarm__dht/index.d.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..efb9ad438
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/src/federation/@types/@hyperswarm__dht/index.d.ts
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+declare module '@hyperswarm/dht'
diff --git a/backend/tsconfig.json b/backend/tsconfig.json
index f81bf22d5..d0039646f 100644
--- a/backend/tsconfig.json
+++ b/backend/tsconfig.json
@@ -58,7 +58,10 @@
       "@entity/*": ["../database/entity/*", "../../database/build/entity/*"]
     },
     // "rootDirs": [],                              /* List of root folders whose combined content represents the structure of the project at runtime. */
-    // "typeRoots": [],                             /* List of folders to include type definitions from. */
+    "typeRoots": [   /* List of folders to include type definitions from. */
+      "src/federation/@types",
+      "node_modules/@types"
+    ],
     // "types": [],                                 /* Type declaration files to be included in compilation. */
     // "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true,        /* Allow default imports from modules with no default export. This does not affect code emit, just typechecking. */
     "esModuleInterop": true,                        /* Enables emit interoperability between CommonJS and ES Modules via creation of namespace objects for all imports. Implies 'allowSyntheticDefaultImports'. */