diff --git a/packages/cli/templates/default-app/package.json.hbs b/packages/cli/templates/default-app/package.json.hbs
index 1712584a87..589e20e298 100644
--- a/packages/cli/templates/default-app/package.json.hbs
+++ b/packages/cli/templates/default-app/package.json.hbs
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
     "lint": "lerna run lint --since origin/master --",
     "lint:all": "lerna run lint --",
     "create-plugin": "backstage-cli create-plugin",
-    "remove-plugin": "backstage-cli remove-plugin"
+    "remove-plugin": "backstage-cli remove-plugin",
+    "postinstall": "patch-package"
   },
   "workspaces": {
     "packages": [
@@ -28,6 +29,7 @@
   "devDependencies": {
     "@backstage/cli": "^{{version}}",
     "lerna": "^3.20.2",
+    "patch-package": "^6.2.2",
     "prettier": "^1.19.1"
   }
 }
diff --git a/packages/cli/templates/default-app/patches/README.md b/packages/cli/templates/default-app/patches/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..980729c4cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/cli/templates/default-app/patches/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# patches
+
+This folder contains patches for dependency type declarations. Typescript doesn't provide a way to override of fix types that are installed as a part of the dependent package itself.
+
+Do not add any more patches here, these patches were added as a part of getting the entire repo type-checked, and we depended on some packages with bad types.
+
+As soon as the below issues are fixed, we should remove the patching functionality completely.
+
+## material-table
+
+Fixed in master but not released yet, tracked here: https://github.com/mbrn/material-table/pull/1624
diff --git a/packages/cli/templates/default-app/patches/material-table+1.57.2.patch b/packages/cli/templates/default-app/patches/material-table+1.57.2.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5751243775
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/cli/templates/default-app/patches/material-table+1.57.2.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff --git a/node_modules/material-table/types/index.d.ts b/node_modules/material-table/types/index.d.ts
+index 06b700b..5b3c765 100644
+--- a/node_modules/material-table/types/index.d.ts
++++ b/node_modules/material-table/types/index.d.ts
+@@ -228,7 +228,6 @@ export interface Options {
+   showTitle?: boolean;
+   showTextRowsSelected?: boolean;
+   search?: boolean;
+-  searchText?: string;
+   searchFieldAlignment?: 'left' | 'right';
+   searchFieldStyle?: React.CSSProperties;
+   searchText?: string;