Typing Assets - enhance your TypeScript

Powerful library for TypeScript, that provides better typing support with additional utility generics and typing predicates

This library was made for advanced TypeScript users, if you do not now what is type guard, assert keyword, utility generics, then you should read blogs below and then come back to this library

• Utility types official docs
• Asserters guide
• Type guards guide

What Typing Assets can do?

Additional utility types

• New utility types will make your type aggregation more comfortable
• You don't need to provide your own utility types in your project, just import this library
• Full type safety

Type predicators generation

• Now you don't need to write asserters and guards by your own, just use generatePredicates function, and it will generate both guard and asserter for your type based on given params
• You can generate guard or asserter separately
• Full type safety, just if like you writed the guard
• Conditional (custom) type guard generation by validation function
• 100% Test coverage

Property aggregation functions

• Pick and remove properties with type safety
• 100% Test coverage

Install:

npm i typing-assets

Usage:

import {isSameType} from "typing-assets/src"

// false
isSameType(1, "1", [1])

• Always use import {...} from "typing-assets/src" with src subdir

Documantation map:

Utility types

DeepOptional - makes all nested properties optional

DeepRequired - makes all nested properties required

ValueOf - extracts union type of values from object

FromArray - extracts union type from array

ExcludeNullable - excludes all nested nullable types from unions in object

ExcludeActual - excludes all nested non-nullable types from unions in object

ActualReturnType - return type of function without Promise generic and Awaited keyword

Predicates

generateGuard - generates type guard function by provided type checking property and it's primitive type, for ex. generateGuard(user, "name", "string")

generateConditionalGuard - generates type guard function by provided validation callback

generateAsserter - generates type asserter function by provided validation callback

generatePredicates - generates both type asserter and guard. Has 2 overloads for generating by property primitive and by validation callback

Property aggregators

excludeProperties - excludes provided properties with type safety

pickProperties - picks provided properties with type safety

Utility generic types:

DeepOptional<T>

Making all nested fields optional. Returns T type if it is not extending object

type User = {
    name: string
    age: number
    cc: {
        code: string
        cvv: number
    }
}

/*
*  name?: string
*  age?: number
*  cc?: {
*      code?: string
*      cvv?: number
*  }
*/
type OptionalUser = DeepOptional<User>

DeepRequired<T>

Making all nested fields required. Returns T type if it is not extending object

type User = {
    name: string
    age: number
    cc?: {
        code?: string
        cvv: number
    }
}

/*
*  ...
*  cc: {
*      code: string
*      cvv: number
*  }
*/
type RequiredlUser = DeepRequired<User>

ValueOf<T>

Exports union of all possible values (works also with arrays)

// type A = string
type A = ValueOf<string[]>

// type B = string | number
type B = ValueOf<{ "1": "1", "2": 2 }>

FromArray<T>

Exports value specifically from array. Returns T if it is not array

// type A = string
type A = FromArray<string[]>

ExcludeNullable<T>

Excludes all nullable unions in nested fields

/* a: {
*    b: string;
*    c: string;
*  };
*  x: number;
*/
type A = ExcludeNullable<
    {
        a: {
            b: string |null | void 
            c: string
        }
        x: number undefined
    }
>

ExcludeActual<T>

Excludes all primitive types from union type in nested properties

/*
*  {
*    a: {
*        b: void | null;
*        c: never;
*    };
*    x: undefined;
*  }
*/
type A = ExcludeActual<
    {
        a: {
            b: string | null | void 
            c: string
        }
        x: number | undefined
    }
>

ActualReturnType<T>

Works like ReturnType but automatically resolves promises types and excludes nullable values

function f (): Promise<void | string | undefined>
// A = string
type A = ActualReturnType<typeof f>

Predicates:

• Type guards and asserters works better with branded types, for more information about branded types you can check out this video

isSameType

Takes 1 to n arguments, returns true if arguments are same type, false if not

// true
const foo = isSameType("a", "b", "")

// false
const bar = isSameType("a", 1)

generateGuard

Generates type guard by property and its primitive type (basic type guard). Uses for

type User = {
    name: string
    age: number
    cc: {
        code: string
        cvv: number
    }
}

const isUser = generateGuard(
    "name", "string"
)

// true
isUser({
    name: "Jason",
    age: 19,
    cc: {
        code: "1234 5678 9101 1121",
        cvv: 890
    }
})

generateConditionalGuard

Generates type guard functions that guards by the callback function provided in argument

type User = {
    name: string
    age: number
    cc: {
        code: string
        cvv: number
    }
}

const isUser = generateConditionalGuard(
    (entity: unknown) => (entity as User).cc.code.startsWith("1")
)

// true
isUser({
    name: "Jason",
    age: 19,
    cc: {
        code: "1234 5678 9101 1121",
        cvv: 890
    }
})

generateAsserter

Generates type asserter, that throws error if provided object does not follow provided conditions (opposite of type guard). isValid callback should be like in generateConditionalGuard function argument

type User = {
    name: string
    age: number
    cc: {
        code: string
        cvv: number
    }
}

const assertUser = generateAsserter(
    (source: unknown) => (source as User).сс.code.startsWith("34"),
    "Your cc code does not starts with 34"
)

// throw `Error("Your cc code does not starts with 34")`
assertUser({
    name: "Jason",
    age: 19,
    cc: {
        code: "1234 5678 9101 1121",
        cvv: 890
    }
})

generatePredicates

Generates both asserter and guard for promoted type. Has 2 overloads. First generates predicates with provided validator callback, second generates predicates via provided property and its primitive type. Both overloads requires error message at first argument

type User = {
    name: string
    age: number
    cc: {
        code: string
        cvv: number
    }
}

const predicates: Predicates<User> = generatePredicates<User>(
    "User is not 18 yo",
    (source: unknown) => {return (source as User).age > 18}
)


const user = {
    name: "Pedro",
    age: 17,
    cc: {
        code: "1231 2312 3132",
        cvv: 123
    }
}

// throws 'Error("User is not 18 yo")'
predicates.assert(user)

// true
predicates.guard(user)

Property aggergators

• This is the only feature in this library that may work with the JavaScript

excludeProperties

Excludes properties from given object. Mutates original object and returns mutated value. Return value will be type safe as with Omit<T>

const user: User = {
    name: "Pedro",
    age: 17,
    cc: {
        code: "1231 2312 3132",
        cvv: 123
    }
}
/*
* {
*   name: "Pedro",
*   age: 17,
* }
*/
const userWithoutCC: Omit<User, "cc"> = excludeProperties(user)

pickProperties

Opposite of excludeProperties, picks properties from original objects. Mutates original object and returns mutated value. Return value will be type safe as with Pick<T>

const user: User = {
    name: "Pedro",
    age: 17,
    cc: {
        code: "1231 2312 3132",
        cvv: 123
    }
}
/*
* {
*   name: "Pedro",
*   age: 17,
* }
*/
const userWithoutCC: Pick<User, "age" | "name"> = pickProperties(user, "age", "name")

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