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I truly wish I could get Opaque Types (Newtypes?) in Typescript. Great writeup!

• jbm 4y ago
  I was secretly hoping someone would respond with an insult and the correct way to do Opaque Types in TypeScript, but sadly no such luck. I took a look and found that it is possible to do something similar here (albeit with more heavy lifting) https://www.ferreira.io/posts/opaque-branded-types-in-typescript https://www.ferreira.io/posts/opaque-branded-types-in-typesc...
  • shirogane86x 4y ago
    As far as I know, the only available approaches are brands and just wrapping it in a one element object (but that's even worse). But the branding is a lot easier if you just use something like zod [1] for all your types. [1] https://github.com/colinhacks/zod#brand https://github.com/colinhacks/zod#brand
    • jbm 4y ago
      This is great! Thank you for the share.