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Don’t worry, the mechanism for creating TypeScript Mixins hasn’t changed, but I just wanted to demonstrate that the technique described in TypeScript Mixins Part Two is valid for use with static properties. Reusing the original example, let’s see what happens if we add static properties to our Flies and Climbs mixins. type Constructor<T = {}> […]
I had a question from Bruce about ECMAScript modules following on from my post on not mixing namespaces and modules in TypeScript. The question was: How can a module create something that can be used in browser without creating a variable on the global scope? This is a great question, so here is a quick […]
Cypress is a front-end testing utility that allows you to write UI tests using Mocha and Chai. It has auto-waits, time-travel (look back at snapshots from within test runs), and automatic discovery of tests. This blog provides a quick start for getting started with Cypress and TypeScript. Cypress NPM Packages Your package.json file will need […]
This is just a short note on how to use an ECMAScript Proxy to intercept methods. There are plenty of examples that intercept properties, but examples with methods seem absent currently. For demonstration purposes, we’re going to intercept a very famous method. The console log method takes any number of arguments of any type. This […]
ECMAScript has an optional chaining proposal on the way (see TC39 on GitHub). It uses ?. to chain together an expression in a way that forgives a breaking chain. For example, myObj.items[0].data can fail if myObj is null, or undefined, or doesn’t have an items member, or there are no entries in the items collection, […]
This article simply promotes the use of the statement if (x == null) when you want to check if a value is either null or undefined. I keep on having to explain this point, because catching null or undefined without side effects is important. If we break the statement down, there is a very important […]
This is a quick note with an updated version on how to exclude files from the Visual Studio Code file explorer. I originally wrote about this in 2015 before the UI was as polished as it is now. I have also found I get asked about this a great deal due to conflicting information I […]
TypeScript is optionally statically typed, which means you can still write dynamically typed expressions within your TypeScript programs. If you drop into a block of dynamic code, and then want to come back out into statically typed code – you’ll need to introduce the types, and are responsible for the correctness of the type you […]
TypeScript has had the strict compiler option for a while now. It enables several more stringent checks, including two of my favourites: noImplicitAny and strictNullChecks. My summary of strict mode would be this… “If using TypeScript is better than using plain JavaScript because of the compiler warnings, why wouldn’t you want to turn the compiler […]
When you first encounter TypeScript (or JavaScript) destructuring it looks a little bit magic, especially in object destructuring where it looks like you are doing everything in a mirror (the names go on the right!). If you find destructuring a little confusing – strap yourselves in and we’ll rush our way to an example of […]
