Name: Typescript Utility Types
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Author: kevin-uehara

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In this small article I will talk about the Utility Types of Typescript

Utility types are features available on all typescript code. So let's see some them:

Utility Types For Objects

First let's define some object as type:

type User = {
  id: number;
  name: string;
  userName?: string;
}

Makes the all the properties of the type undefined.

type PartialUser = Partial<User>;

Makes all the properties of the type required.

type RequiredUser = Required<User>;

We can omit some property of the type and create a new type without it.

type OmitUserUsername = Omit<User, "userName">;

We can pass an union types for more properties:

type OnlyId = Omit<User, "userName" | "name">;

Unlike Omit, we can pick some property of the type

type PickId = Pick<User, "id">;

And as Omit, We can pass an union types for more properties:

type WithoutUser = Pick<User, "id" | "userName">;

Turns the properties read-only

type ReadOnlyUser = Readonly<User>;

If we try to change some property we will have some error:

Utility Types For Union Types

Let's create our Union Type:

type Role = "admin" | "user" | "manager";

It will remove some type of the union types

type NoUserRole = Exclude<Role, "user">;

Let's create another union types:

type RoleAttributes =
  | {
      role: "admin";
      permission: "all";
    }
  | {
      role: "user";
    }
  | {
      role: "manager";
    };

Now let's extract the admin using:

type AdminRole = Extract<RoleAttributes, { role: "admin" }>;

Let's define a union type where the result can be a string, null or undefined;

type MaybeString = string | null | undefined;

type NonNullableString = NonNullable<MaybeString>;

Let's define our type of function:

type myFunction = (a: number, b: number) => number;

It will return the type of the return of the function

type ReturnValueFunction = ReturnType<myFunction>;

It will return a tuple of the parameters of the function:

type MyParameters = Parameters<myFunction>;

It will return the type of a Promise

Let's define a type of Promise

type PromiseUser= Promise<User>;

type Result = Awaited<PromiseUser>;

And that's it guys! Let's see some challenge?

Define the type of the result of this async function:

const getMyName = async () => {
  return {
    name: "Kevin",
  };
};

How we can get a object type that is a string?

The answer:

type MyNameResult = Awaited<ReturnType<typeof getMyName>>;

So, thank you guys for getting this far.
That's it, the Typescript offers some utility types that can help you on your development.

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