Situation:
Consider having the myTypes
constant holding prop-types (written somewhere in a file called my-component.js
), like below:
import React from 'react'
import { View } from 'react-native'
import PropTypes from 'prop-types'
export const myTypes = {
activeColor: PropTypes.string,
color: PropTypes.string,
fontFamily: PropTypes.string,
fontSize: PropTypes.number,
fontWeight: PropTypes.oneOfType([PropTypes.string, PropTypes.number]),
height: PropTypes.number,
icon: PropTypes.node,
iconOverlay: PropTypes.node,
marginBottom: PropTypes.number,
marginLeft: PropTypes.number,
marginRight: PropTypes.number,
marginTop: PropTypes.number,
maxHeight: PropTypes.number,
minHeight: PropTypes.number,
onBlur: PropTypes.func,
onChangeText: PropTypes.func,
paddingBottom: PropTypes.number,
paddingLeft: PropTypes.number,
paddingRight: PropTypes.number,
paddingTop: PropTypes.number
}
export default class MyComponent extends React.Component {
static propTypes = myTypes
render () {
return (
<View></View>
);
}
}
How would you use myTypes
as a type or helper to enable IDE auto-completion?
What I tried (in another file written in type-script
as well) is below:
import MyComponent, { myTypes } from 'my-component';
const dark_theme_properties: myTypes = {
activeColor: 'green'
};
But of course, that gives the 'myTypes' refers to a value, but is being used as a type here. ts(2749)
error.
Edit: the question in the old title was "How to use a value as a type definition in typescript?
", which thanks to the answers, I now know would be as simple as using typeof
keyword, like:
const dark_theme_properties: typeof myTypes = {
activeColor: 'green'
// ...
};