diff --git a/example.py b/example.py
index 415fad6..8163c84 100644
--- a/example.py
+++ b/example.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import trio
 
 from trio_paho_mqtt import AsyncClient
 
-client_id = 'trio-paho-mqtt/' + str(uuid.uuid4())
+client_id = "trio-paho-mqtt/" + str(uuid.uuid4())
 topic = client_id
 n_messages = 3
 print("Using client_id / topic: " + client_id)
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ async def test_write(client):
     Publishing asynchronously will cause this function to return almost immediately."""
     now = time.time()
     print(f"> Publishing: {now} * 40000")
-    client.publish(topic, bytes(str(now), encoding='utf8') * 40000, qos=1)
+    client.publish(topic, bytes(str(now), encoding="utf8") * 40000, qos=1)
     print(f"publish took {time.time() - now} seconds")
 
 
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ async def main():
         # Wrap it to create an asyncronous version
         client = AsyncClient(sync_client, nursery)
         # Connect to the broker, and subscribe to the topic
-        client.connect('mqtt.eclipse.org', 1883, 60)
+        client.connect("mqtt.eclipse.org", 1883, 60)
         client.subscribe(topic)
 
         # Start the reader
diff --git a/mypy.ini b/mypy.ini
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..72a0cfe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mypy.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+[mypy]
+strict = true
+
+files =
+  ./trio_paho_mqtt/
+
+#  tests/,
+
+
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 4f79644..d113fde 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -20,6 +20,28 @@ docs = ["furo", "sphinx", "zope-interface", "sphinx-notfound-page"]
 tests = ["coverage[toml] (>=5.0.2)", "hypothesis", "pympler", "pytest (>=4.3.0)", "mypy (>=0.900,!=0.940)", "pytest-mypy-plugins", "zope-interface", "cloudpickle"]
 tests_no_zope = ["coverage[toml] (>=5.0.2)", "hypothesis", "pympler", "pytest (>=4.3.0)", "mypy (>=0.900,!=0.940)", "pytest-mypy-plugins", "cloudpickle"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "black"
+version = "22.6.0"
+description = "The uncompromising code formatter."
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.6.2"
+
+[package.dependencies]
+click = ">=8.0.0"
+mypy-extensions = ">=0.4.3"
+pathspec = ">=0.9.0"
+platformdirs = ">=2"
+tomli = {version = ">=1.1.0", markers = "python_full_version < \"3.11.0a7\""}
+typing-extensions = {version = ">=3.10.0.0", markers = "python_version < \"3.10\""}
+
+[package.extras]
+colorama = ["colorama (>=0.4.3)"]
+d = ["aiohttp (>=3.7.4)"]
+jupyter = ["ipython (>=7.8.0)", "tokenize-rt (>=3.2.0)"]
+uvloop = ["uvloop (>=0.15.2)"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "cffi"
 version = "1.15.1"
@@ -31,6 +53,25 @@ python-versions = "*"
 [package.dependencies]
 pycparser = "*"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "click"
+version = "8.1.3"
+description = "Composable command line interface toolkit"
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.7"
+
+[package.dependencies]
+colorama = {version = "*", markers = "platform_system == \"Windows\""}
+
+[[package]]
+name = "colorama"
+version = "0.4.5"
+description = "Cross-platform colored terminal text."
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "idna"
 version = "3.3"
@@ -39,6 +80,46 @@ category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.5"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "isort"
+version = "5.10.1"
+description = "A Python utility / library to sort Python imports."
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.6.1,<4.0"
+
+[package.extras]
+pipfile_deprecated_finder = ["pipreqs", "requirementslib"]
+requirements_deprecated_finder = ["pipreqs", "pip-api"]
+colors = ["colorama (>=0.4.3,<0.5.0)"]
+plugins = ["setuptools"]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "mypy"
+version = "0.971"
+description = "Optional static typing for Python"
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.6"
+
+[package.dependencies]
+mypy-extensions = ">=0.4.3"
+tomli = {version = ">=1.1.0", markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""}
+typing-extensions = ">=3.10"
+
+[package.extras]
+dmypy = ["psutil (>=4.0)"]
+python2 = ["typed-ast (>=1.4.0,<2)"]
+reports = ["lxml"]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "mypy-extensions"
+version = "0.4.3"
+description = "Experimental type system extensions for programs checked with the mypy typechecker."
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = "*"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "outcome"
 version = "1.2.0"
@@ -61,6 +142,38 @@ python-versions = "*"
 [package.extras]
 proxy = ["pysocks"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "paho-mqtt-stubs"
+version = "0.1.0"
+description = "Type stubs for the paho MQTT client library"
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.7,<4.0"
+
+[package.dependencies]
+paho-mqtt = ">=1.6.1,<2.0.0"
+typing-extensions = ">=3.10.0,<4.0.0"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "pathspec"
+version = "0.9.0"
+description = "Utility library for gitignore style pattern matching of file paths."
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = "!=3.0.*,!=3.1.*,!=3.2.*,!=3.3.*,!=3.4.*,>=2.7"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "platformdirs"
+version = "2.5.2"
+description = "A small Python module for determining appropriate platform-specific dirs, e.g. a \"user data dir\"."
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.7"
+
+[package.extras]
+docs = ["furo (>=2021.7.5b38)", "proselint (>=0.10.2)", "sphinx-autodoc-typehints (>=1.12)", "sphinx (>=4)"]
+test = ["appdirs (==1.4.4)", "pytest-cov (>=2.7)", "pytest-mock (>=3.6)", "pytest (>=6)"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pycparser"
 version = "2.21"
@@ -85,6 +198,14 @@ category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tomli"
+version = "2.0.1"
+description = "A lil' TOML parser"
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.7"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "trio"
 version = "0.21.0"
@@ -102,21 +223,60 @@ outcome = "*"
 sniffio = "*"
 sortedcontainers = "*"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "trio-typing"
+version = "0.7.0"
+description = "Static type checking support for Trio and related projects"
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = "*"
+
+[package.dependencies]
+mypy-extensions = ">=0.4.2"
+trio = ">=0.16.0"
+typing-extensions = ">=3.7.4"
+
+[package.extras]
+mypy = ["mypy (>=0.920)"]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "typing-extensions"
+version = "3.10.0.2"
+description = "Backported and Experimental Type Hints for Python 3.5+"
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = "*"
+
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "1.1"
 python-versions = "^3.8"
-content-hash = "e4288cd6d3001aff49f3fb888f566b4ca441c0a59ecf2effe14386368c2afc75"
+content-hash = "7f776b468a61860673be03434d0be898d3a153f7afbf2928a3f538714a5da4f4"
 
 [metadata.files]
 async-generator = []
 attrs = []
+black = []
 cffi = []
+click = []
+colorama = []
 idna = [
     {file = "idna-3.3-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:84d9dd047ffa80596e0f246e2eab0b391788b0503584e8945f2368256d2735ff"},
     {file = "idna-3.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:9d643ff0a55b762d5cdb124b8eaa99c66322e2157b69160bc32796e824360e6d"},
 ]
+isort = []
+mypy = []
+mypy-extensions = [
+    {file = "mypy_extensions-0.4.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:090fedd75945a69ae91ce1303b5824f428daf5a028d2f6ab8a299250a846f15d"},
+    {file = "mypy_extensions-0.4.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:2d82818f5bb3e369420cb3c4060a7970edba416647068eb4c5343488a6c604a8"},
+]
 outcome = []
 paho-mqtt = []
+paho-mqtt-stubs = []
+pathspec = [
+    {file = "pathspec-0.9.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:7d15c4ddb0b5c802d161efc417ec1a2558ea2653c2e8ad9c19098201dc1c993a"},
+    {file = "pathspec-0.9.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:e564499435a2673d586f6b2130bb5b95f04a3ba06f81b8f895b651a3c76aabb1"},
+]
+platformdirs = []
 pycparser = [
     {file = "pycparser-2.21-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:8ee45429555515e1f6b185e78100aea234072576aa43ab53aefcae078162fca9"},
     {file = "pycparser-2.21.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:e644fdec12f7872f86c58ff790da456218b10f863970249516d60a5eaca77206"},
@@ -126,4 +286,7 @@ sortedcontainers = [
     {file = "sortedcontainers-2.4.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:a163dcaede0f1c021485e957a39245190e74249897e2ae4b2aa38595db237ee0"},
     {file = "sortedcontainers-2.4.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:25caa5a06cc30b6b83d11423433f65d1f9d76c4c6a0c90e3379eaa43b9bfdb88"},
 ]
+tomli = []
 trio = []
+trio-typing = []
+typing-extensions = []
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9d3843a..4f795aa 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -13,6 +13,13 @@ trio = "^0.21.0"
 paho-mqtt = "^1.6.1"
 
 
+[tool.poetry.group.dev.dependencies]
+mypy = "^0.971"
+black = "^22.6.0"
+isort = "^5.10.1"
+paho-mqtt-stubs = "^0.1.0"
+trio-typing = "^0.7.0"
+
 [build-system]
 requires = ["poetry-core"]
 build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"
diff --git a/scripts-dev/lint.sh b/scripts-dev/lint.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..c42ec2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts-dev/lint.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+isort .
+black .
+mypy
+
diff --git a/trio_paho_mqtt/__init__.py b/trio_paho_mqtt/__init__.py
index 5dfe0b8..4b4d976 100644
--- a/trio_paho_mqtt/__init__.py
+++ b/trio_paho_mqtt/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-from .trio_paho_mqtt import AsyncClient
+from .client import AsyncClient
+
+__all__ = ["AsyncClient"]
diff --git a/trio_paho_mqtt/trio_paho_mqtt.py b/trio_paho_mqtt/client.py
similarity index 94%
rename from trio_paho_mqtt/trio_paho_mqtt.py
rename to trio_paho_mqtt/client.py
index 2b88ef0..3a00b51 100644
--- a/trio_paho_mqtt/trio_paho_mqtt.py
+++ b/trio_paho_mqtt/client.py
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ import trio
 
 
 class AsyncClient:
-    def __init__(self, sync_client: mqtt.Client, parent_nursery: trio.Nursery, max_buffer=100):
+    def __init__(
+        self, sync_client: mqtt.Client, parent_nursery: trio.Nursery, max_buffer=100
+    ):
         self._client = sync_client
         self._nursery = parent_nursery
 
@@ -28,7 +30,9 @@ class AsyncClient:
         self._client.on_socket_register_write = self._on_socket_register_write
         self._client.on_socket_unregister_write = self._on_socket_unregister_write
 
-        self._msg_send_channel, self._msg_receive_channel = trio.open_memory_channel(max_buffer)
+        self._msg_send_channel, self._msg_receive_channel = trio.open_memory_channel(
+            max_buffer
+        )
 
         self.subscribe = self._client.subscribe
         self.publish = self._client.publish
@@ -79,7 +83,9 @@ class AsyncClient:
                 await trio.lowlevel.wait_writable(self.socket)
                 self._client.loop_write()
 
-    def connect(self, host, port=1883, keepalive=60, bind_address="", bind_port=0, **kwargs):
+    def connect(
+        self, host, port=1883, keepalive=60, bind_address="", bind_port=0, **kwargs
+    ):
         self._start_all_loop()
         self._client.connect(host, port, keepalive, bind_address, bind_port, **kwargs)
 
@@ -130,4 +136,3 @@ class AsyncClient:
     def _on_socket_unregister_write(self, client, userdata, sock):
         # finished large write - stop write loop
         self._event_large_write = trio.Event()
-