Possible to extend types in Typescript?

Question

Say I have the following type:

type Event = {    name: string;    dateCreated: string;    type: string; } 

I now want to extend this type, i.e.

type UserEvent extends Event = {    UserId: string;  } 

This doesn't work. How can I do this?

Answer 1

The keyword extends can be used for interfaces and classes only.

If you just want to declare a type that has additional properties, you can use intersection type:

type UserEvent = Event & {UserId: string} 

UPDATE for TypeScript 2.2, it's now possible to have an interface that extends object-like type, if the type satisfies some restrictions:

type Event = {    name: string;    dateCreated: string;    type: string; }  interface UserEvent extends Event {    UserId: string;  } 

It does not work the other way round - UserEvent must be declared as interface, not a type if you want to use extends syntax.

And it's still impossible to use extend with arbitrary types - for example, it does not work if Event is a type parameter without any constraints.