>To this day I haven't found a way of doing this in TS. Just make a static method that does initialization if needed and returns a new instance? https://www.t

>To this day I haven't found a way of doing this in TS. Just make a static method that does initialization if needed and returns a new instance? https://www.typescripttutorial.net/typescript-tutorial/typescript-static-methods-and-properties/ https://www.typescripttutorial.net/typescript-tutorial/types... I'm trying to not be too hard on people as I read this thread, but it's baffling to me that web devs are getting filtered by features that have been in other languages since the 80's and 90's.