Unfortunately TypeScript's enums have various shortcomings compared to powerful sum types in languages like Rust: - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4027583

Unfortunately TypeScript's enums have various shortcomings compared to powerful sum types in languages like Rust: - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40275832/typescript-has-unions-so-are-enums-redundant/55459814#55459814 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40275832/typescript-has-... - https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/32690 https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/32690 In a TS codebase I'm currently working on, we have the policy of never using "plain" TS enums. Instead, we have a tool that generates our own enum objects using a schema and a generator script for the cases where we want "rich" enums. For other use cases, we use string unions a lot (in combination with a helper function that allows exhaustive matching).