In addition to config portion for React (https://github.com/benmosher/eslint-plugin-import/blob/master/config/react.js) I suggest to create a portion for TypeScript in a separate file:

{
  "settings": {
    "import/resolver": {
      "node": {
        "extensions": [
          ".js",
          ".jsx",
          ".ts",
          ".tsx"
        ]
      }
    }
}

In this case instead of endless copy-paste of this section users would simply add something like plugin:import/typescript to their configs.