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Learning TypeScript 2.x - Second Edition
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Learning TypeScript 2.x - Second Edition

by Remo H. Jansen
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
536 pages
13h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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Intersection types

When Anders Hejlsberg added intersection types to TypeScript for the first time, he defined them as follows:

"Intersection types are the logical complement of union types. A union type A | B represents an entity that has either type A or type B, whereas an intersection type A & B represents an entity that has both type A and type B."

The following example declares three interfaces named A, B, and C. Then it declares an object named abc, whose type is the intersection type of the interfaces A, B, and C. As a result, the abc object has properties named a, b, and c, but not d:

interface A { a: string } interface B { b: string } interface C { c: string } declare let abc: A & B & C; abc.a = "hello"; // OK abc.b = "hello"; // ...
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