diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index af4175f..6f3c2ec 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ lib-cov
 *.pid
 *.gz
 .*.swp
+.idea
 node_modules
 
 pids
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 05d299e..9cbeadb 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 language: node_js
 node_js:
-  - "0.10"
-  - "0.11"
+  - "node"
+  - "lts/*"
+  - "9"
+  - "8"
+  - "6"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 4757600..3c9e4c7 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -1,12 +1,18 @@
 var json_stringify = require('./lib/stringify.js').stringify;
 var json_parse     = require('./lib/parse.js');
 
-module.exports = function(options) {
+var newInstance = function(options) {
     return  {
         parse: json_parse(options),
         stringify: json_stringify
     }
 };
+
+module.exports = newInstance;
+
 //create the default method members with no options applied for backwards compatibility
 module.exports.parse = json_parse();
 module.exports.stringify = json_stringify;
+
+// for cleaner typescript API
+module.exports.newInstance = newInstance;
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 6c3feba..ab884e2 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "json-bigint",
-  "version": "0.3.0",
+  "version": "0.3.1",
   "description": "JSON.parse with bigints support",
   "main": "index.js",
   "scripts": {