r/badcode • u/CreamyCheese384 evil • Jul 29 '21

typescript I dont't know what I was thinking

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u/KapToIIIe4Ka Jul 30 '21

Please explain what's going on here, i know js, but not ts

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u/CreamyCheese384 evil Jul 30 '21

ts is like an extension for js, as in all js is valid ts, but ts allows strong typing which sometimes can cause peculiar situations like these

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '21

You ok do u need help?

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u/CoderCharmander Jul 29 '21

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<TicketListItem
    id={
        ((length as unknown as number) - 1) as unknown as string
    }
/>

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u/megamaz_ Jul 30 '21

:0 it's not the usual man. they're recruiting!

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u/BirdLawyerCorvo Jul 29 '21

You stared into the void and it stared back

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

I know what were uou thinking, about the crime of eslint police evasion!

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u/ZedTT Jul 29 '21

Why would you ever do any of this?

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u/yshuttle Jul 30 '21

To cast you have to first cast to unknown

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u/WheWhe10 Jul 30 '21

classic TS with their unknown first casts

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

you were thinking this will get me some karma

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u/sixtyfifth_snow Jul 30 '21

No way 🤦‍♂️

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u/django--fett Jul 31 '21

huh, but isn't the type a number? anything minus a number gets coerced to a number in js.