Michael Hladky & Stefan Baumgartner

The Art and Craft of Type Development

Stop guessing object paths. Use recursive types and template literals to get full auto-completion and compile-time safety for any nested property.

The Art and Craft of Type Development
#1about 6 minutes

The challenge of typing deeply nested object properties

Manually creating function overloads for each level of object nesting is not a scalable or dynamic solution for property selection.

#2about 9 minutes

Setting up a playground for advanced type development

Isolate type development by using the TypeScript playground, a sample data object, and a declared function to focus solely on type signatures.

#3about 13 minutes

Recursively generating a union type for nested keys

Build a recursive helper type using string literals and conditional types to generate a union of all possible dot-notation paths for a nested object.

#4about 8 minutes

Inferring the return type from a string path

Use a recursive conditional type with the `infer` keyword to parse a dot-notation string and correctly determine the type of the selected nested property.

#5about 6 minutes

Recapping the workflow and current TypeScript limitations

The development process involves isolating the problem, using helper types, and understanding current limitations like variadic tuple types for dynamic argument lists.

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