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Allow optional property syntax, similar to typescript with key?: value

See original GitHub issue

It would be great for users coming from typescript to be able to write the following:

type ObjectType = {
  key?: string
}

const test: ObjectType = {};

Thanks.

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:5 (4 by maintainers)

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thecotnecommented, Jun 22, 2021

Object.keys and Object.entries also give different results when prop is not there vs when prop is undefined

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JSMonkcommented, Jun 22, 2021

It’s true. And also we infer the keys result from the object type.

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