diff --git a/.editorconfig b/.editorconfig
deleted file mode 100644
index d4f4446789..0000000000
--- a/.editorconfig
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-# EditorConfig is awesome: http://EditorConfig.org
-
-# top-most EditorConfig file
-root = true
-
-# Unix-style newlines with a newline ending every file
-[*]
-end_of_line = lf
-indent_style = space
-insert_final_newline = true
-trim_trailing_whitespace = true
-indent_size = 2
diff --git a/.yarnclean b/.yarnclean
index c725e75906..b1752b1669 100644
--- a/.yarnclean
+++ b/.yarnclean
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ Gruntfile.js
 # configs
 .tern-project
 .gitattributes
-.editorconfig
 .*ignore
 .eslintrc
 .jshintrc
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index dd016e85f0..f27fba73bb 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@
       "!**/node_modules/*/build/**",
       "!**/*.{o,hprof,orig,pyc,pyo,rbc}",
       "!**/._*",
-      "!**/{.DS_Store,.git,.hg,.svn,CVS,RCS,SCCS,__pycache__,thumbs.db,.gitignore,.gitattributes,.editorconfig,.flowconfig,.yarn-metadata.json,.idea,appveyor.yml,.travis.yml,circle.yml,npm-debug.log,.nyc_output,yarn.lock,.yarn-integrity}",
+      "!**/{.DS_Store,.git,.hg,.svn,CVS,RCS,SCCS,__pycache__,thumbs.db,.gitignore,.gitattributes,.flowconfig,.yarn-metadata.json,.idea,appveyor.yml,.travis.yml,circle.yml,npm-debug.log,.nyc_output,yarn.lock,.yarn-integrity}",
       "node_modules/spellchecker/build/Release/*.node",
       "node_modules/websocket/build/Release/*.node",
       "node_modules/curve25519-n/build/Release/*.node",