diff --git a/.changeset/ninety-planets-work.md b/.changeset/ninety-planets-work.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..42116375af6c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/ninety-planets-work.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'create-astro': minor
+---
+
+Add a step to configure how strict TypeScript should be
diff --git a/packages/create-astro/package.json b/packages/create-astro/package.json
index 476d9b5caef2..e4bd4d1f4df4 100644
--- a/packages/create-astro/package.json
+++ b/packages/create-astro/package.json
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@
   },
   "files": [
     "dist",
-    "create-astro.js"
+    "create-astro.js",
+    "tsconfigs"
   ],
   "dependencies": {
     "chalk": "^5.0.1",
diff --git a/packages/create-astro/src/index.ts b/packages/create-astro/src/index.ts
index 5ee160e386f1..4f026e99767f 100644
--- a/packages/create-astro/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/create-astro/src/index.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import ora from 'ora';
 import os from 'os';
 import path from 'path';
 import prompts from 'prompts';
+import url from 'url';
 import detectPackageManager from 'which-pm-runs';
 import yargs from 'yargs-parser';
 import { loadWithRocketGradient, rocketAscii } from './gradient.js';
@@ -284,10 +285,75 @@ export async function main() {
 		ora().info(dim(`--dry-run enabled, skipping.`));
 	} else if (gitResponse.git) {
 		await execaCommand('git init', { cwd });
+		ora().succeed('Git repository created!');
 	} else {
 		ora().info(dim(`Sounds good! You can come back and run ${cyan(`git init`)} later.`));
 	}
 
+	const tsResponse = await prompts(
+		{
+			type: 'select',
+			name: 'typescript',
+			message: 'How would you like to setup TypeScript?',
+			choices: [
+				{
+					title: 'Relaxed',
+					value: 'default',
+				},
+				{
+					title: 'Strict (recommended)',
+					description: 'Enable `strict` typechecking rules',
+					value: 'strict',
+				},
+				{
+					title: 'Strictest',
+					description: 'Enable all typechecking rules',
+					value: 'stricter',
+				},
+				{
+					title: 'I prefer not to use TypeScript',
+					description: `That's cool too!`,
+					value: 'optout',
+				},
+			],
+		},
+		{
+			onCancel: () => {
+				ora().info(
+					dim(
+						'Operation cancelled. Your project folder has been created but no TypeScript configuration file was created.'
+					)
+				);
+				process.exit(1);
+			},
+		}
+	);
+
+	if (tsResponse.typescript === 'optout') {
+		console.log(``);
+		ora().warn(yellow(bold(`Astro ❤️ TypeScript!`)));
+		console.log(`  Astro supports TypeScript inside of ".astro" component scripts, so`);
+		console.log(`  we still need to create some TypeScript-related files in your project.`);
+		console.log(`  You can safely ignore these files, but don't delete them!`);
+		console.log(dim('  (ex: tsconfig.json, src/types.d.ts)'));
+		console.log(``);
+		tsResponse.typescript = 'default';
+		await wait(300);
+	}
+	if (args.dryRun) {
+		ora().info(dim(`--dry-run enabled, skipping.`));
+	} else if (tsResponse.typescript) {
+		fs.copyFileSync(
+			path.join(
+				url.fileURLToPath(new URL('..', import.meta.url)),
+				'tsconfigs',
+				`tsconfig.${tsResponse.typescript}.json`
+			),
+			path.join(cwd, 'tsconfig.json')
+		);
+		ora().succeed('TypeScript settings applied!');
+	}
+
 	ora().succeed('Setup complete.');
 	ora({ text: green('Ready for liftoff!') }).succeed();
 	await wait(300);
diff --git a/packages/create-astro/tsconfigs/tsconfig.strict.json b/packages/create-astro/tsconfigs/tsconfig.strict.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a2ebcb5c4414
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/create-astro/tsconfigs/tsconfig.strict.json
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+{
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    // Enable top-level await, and other modern ESM features.
+    "target": "ESNext",
+    "module": "ESNext",
+    // Enable node-style module resolution, for things like npm package imports.
+    "moduleResolution": "node",
+    // Enable JSON imports.
+    "resolveJsonModule": true,
+    // Enable stricter transpilation for better output.
+    "isolatedModules": true,
+    // Astro will directly run your TypeScript code, no transpilation needed.
+    "noEmit": true,
+    // Enable strict type checking.
+    "strict": true,
+    // Error when a value import is only used as a type.
+    "importsNotUsedAsValues": "error"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/create-astro/tsconfigs/tsconfig.stricter.json b/packages/create-astro/tsconfigs/tsconfig.stricter.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..662098fac415
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/create-astro/tsconfigs/tsconfig.stricter.json
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+{
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    // Enable top-level await, and other modern ESM features.
+    "target": "ESNext",
+    "module": "ESNext",
+    // Enable node-style module resolution, for things like npm package imports.
+    "moduleResolution": "node",
+    // Enable JSON imports.
+    "resolveJsonModule": true,
+    // Enable stricter transpilation for better output.
+    "isolatedModules": true,
+    // Astro will directly run your TypeScript code, no transpilation needed.
+    "noEmit": true,
+    // Enable strict type checking.
+    "strict": true,
+    // Error when a value import is only used as a type.
+    "importsNotUsedAsValues": "error",
+    // Report errors for fallthrough cases in switch statements
+    "noFallthroughCasesInSwitch": true,
+    // Force functions designed to override their parent class to be specified as `override`.
+    "noImplicitOverride": true,
+    // Force functions to specify that they can return `undefined` if a possibe code path does not return a value.
+    "noImplicitReturns": true,
+    // Report an error when a variable is declared but never used.
+    "noUnusedLocals": true,
+    // Report an error when a parameter is declared but never used.
+    "noUnusedParameters": true,
+    // Force the usage of the indexed syntax to access fields declared using an index signature.
+    "noUncheckedIndexedAccess": true,
+    // Report an error when the value `undefined` is given to an optional property that doesn't specify `undefined` as a valid value.
+    "exactOptionalPropertyTypes": true
+  }
+}