I'm trying to add some aliases to an array of numbers but typescript wont accept it, here is the code:
interface FontSizeAliases {
micro: number
small: number
default: number
large: number
}
const fontSizes: number[] & FontSizeAliases = [12, 14, 16, 18, 22, 30, 40]
fontSizes.micro = fontSizes[0]
fontSizes.small = fontSizes[1]
fontSizes.default = fontSizes[2]
fontSizes.large = fontSizes[3]
compiler error:
Type 'number[]' is not assignable to type 'number[] & FontSizeAliases'.
Type 'number[]' is missing the following properties from type 'FontSizeAliases': micro, small, default, large
The problem is that your array doesn't have
micro
etc. when you assign it to thefontSizes
constant, but that constant's type requires it.Object.assign
is often used to build up things like that (but keep reading, I work up to a third option which I think is probably best):Playground link
Another option is to build them up in a
Partial<FontSizeAliases>
:Playground link
In both of those, though, you have the issue that you could miss out one of the sizes (
small
, for instance). To fix that, you can create the sizes separately with full typechecking, then combine them:Playground link