Dictionary type in TypeScript

Question

In a few places in my application, I'm declaring a dictionary types, like:

interface MyInterface {
    data: { [key: string]: Item };
}

Is there in TypeScript any built-in shorthand for the dictionaries/maps, to get something similar to:

interface MyInterface {
    data: Dict<Item>;
}

Answer 1

We can try with built-in typescript advanced type called Record<K, T>

interface MyInterface {
    data: Record<string, Item>;
}

Put everything together here

interface Item {
    id: string;
    name: string;
}

interface MyInterface {
    data: Record<string, Item>;
}

const obj: MyInterface = {
    data: {
        "123": { id: "123", name: "something" }
    }
};