What is ts-toolbelt?
The ts-toolbelt package provides a comprehensive set of type utilities to improve TypeScript typing and enable type transformations, checks, and more complex operations. It enhances TypeScript's static typing capabilities and helps in building more robust type-safe applications.
What are ts-toolbelt's main functionalities?
Object Manipulation
Merge two types into one. This is useful for combining properties from multiple objects into a single type.
{ type Merged = Merge<{name: string}, {age: number}>; // Result: {name: string, age: number} }
Type Checking
Check if two types are equivalent. This utility helps in validating type structures for consistency.
{ type check = Equals<{a: string}, {a: string, b: number}>; // Result: false }
Conditional Types
Apply conditional logic to types. This feature allows for conditional type assignments based on certain conditions.
{ type Conditional = If<true, 'Yes', 'No'>; // Result: 'Yes' }
Other packages similar to ts-toolbelt
utility-types
Provides a collection of utility types for TypeScript, similar to ts-toolbelt. While utility-types focuses more on transformations and mappings, ts-toolbelt offers a broader range of type operations including type checks and advanced manipulations.
type-fest
A package that includes a variety of utility types for TypeScript. Type-fest is similar to ts-toolbelt but tends to be simpler and more focused on everyday use cases, whereas ts-toolbelt provides more comprehensive and complex utilities for advanced type manipulation.
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About
ts-toolbelt is the largest, and most tested type library available right
now, featuring +200 utilities. Our type collection packages some of the most
advanced mapped types, conditional types, and recursive types on the market.
Spend less time, build stronger. Benefit from a wide range of generic type
functions to achieve better type safety.
We work just like lodash, or ramda, but applied to the type system. Our mission
is to provide you with simple ways to compute, change, and create types. We
abstract all those complex type checks away for you. We provide a simple,
reusable, and standard API to help you get more done with TypeScript.
ts-toolbelt is a well organized package that can help you perform advanced
operations on object types, union types, as well as function, and literal types.
It is carefully and coherently designed for building robust, flexible, and
type-safe software.
We are a community and a knowledge base. Everyone is welcome to ask questions
about types. If you are stuck or you misunderstand something, you came to the
right place!. We welcome beginners and advanced developers to come take part.
Welcome!
Getting Started
Prerequisites
npm install typescript@^4.1.0 --save-dev
For best results, add this to your tsconfig.json
{
"compilerOptions": {
"strictNullChecks": true,
"strict": true,
"lib": ["es2015"],
}
}
Installation
npm install ts-toolbelt --save
Hello World
import {Object} from "ts-toolbelt"
type merge = Object.Merge<{name: string}, {age?: number}>
type optional = Object.Optional<{id: number, name: string}, "name"}>
You can level-up, and re-code this library from
scratch.
Imports
The project is organized around TypeScript's main concepts:
Any | Boolean | Class | Function | Iteration | List |
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Number | Object | Object.P | String | Union | Test |
TIP
How to choose categories? Match your type with them.
There are many ways to import the types into your project:
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Explicit
import {Any, Boolean, Class, Function, Iteration, List, Number, Object, String, Union} from "ts-toolbelt"
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Compact
import {A, B, C, F, I, L, N, O, S, U} from "ts-toolbelt"
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Portable
import tb from "ts-toolbelt"
You can also import our non-official API from the community:
import {Community} from "ts-toolbelt"
TIP
The community API is for our community to publish useful types that
don't see fit in the standard API.
Utility Index
EXAMPLE
https://millsp.github.io/ts-toolbelt/4.2.1/
In this wiki, you will find some extra resources for your learning, and
understanding.
Are you missing something? Participate to the open-wiki by posting your
questions.
Running tests
For this project
To run the lint
& type
tests, simply run:
npm test
For your project
Want to test your own types? Let's get started:
import {Number, Test} from "ts-toolbelt"
const {checks, check} = Test
checks([
check<Number.Add<1, 30>, 31, Test.Pass>(),
check<Number.Add<5, -3>, 2, Test.Pass>(),
])
TIP
Place it in a file that won't be executed, it's just for TypeScript
to test types.
Continuous Integration
The releases are done with Travis CI in stages & whenever a branch or PR is
pushed:
- Tests are run with
npm test
- Tests against
DefinitelyTyped
- Releases to npm@[branch-name]
Compatibility
The project is maintained to adapt to the constant changes of
TypeScript:
ts-toolbelt | typescript |
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9.x.x | ^4.1.x |
Major version numbers will upgrade whenever TypeScript had breaking changes.
Otherwise, the release versions will naturally follow the semantic versioning.
What's next
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Automated performance tests
npx tsc --noEmit --extendedDiagnostics
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Need to write more examples
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