Interface support

It would be good to support interfaces. This would mean that the person would have to use this library on the typescript before compiling (shouldn’t be done on the original source files obviously).

So maybe this:

interface MyInterface {
    prop: string;
}

nameof<MyInterface>();

Compiles to:

"MyInterface";

[dsherret]

@styfle that’s a very good point. I’ve thought about it a lot the past few days. Previously I was using the ts compiler so I could figure that out if the user were to pass in their compiler options to this library as well; however, I decided to drop using the ts compiler for performance reasons and to better support streams (coming this weekend probably).

So yes, you’re right that there won’t be a safety check when running this on typescript code; however, I would think that the vast majority of people will be using IDEs and the IDE will show them the compiler error when they do nameof(undefinedvariablename). It’s not perfect, but they will get the error from their IDE. It’s still a lot better than just using strings.

[dsherret]

@Brandejs try using the new webpack instructions and don’t use tsnameof-loader: https://github.com/dsherret/ts-nameof/blob/master/setup/webpack.md

Also, highly recommend opening new issues in the issue tracker for new problems. It’s very easy for comments on resolved issues to get lost.