diff --git a/ftdetect/typescript.vim b/ftdetect/typescript.vim
index 481aa47..7c10206 100644
--- a/ftdetect/typescript.vim
+++ b/ftdetect/typescript.vim
@@ -1 +1,4 @@
-autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.ts,*.tsx setlocal filetype=typescript
+" use `set filetype` to override default filetype=xml for *.ts files
+autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.ts  set filetype=typescript
+" use `setfiletype` to not override any other plugins like ianks/vim-tsx
+autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.tsx setfiletype typescript