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Discussion on: Tag Your Unions Before You Wreck Your Unions

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Christian Bewernitz

You can "simplify" the type checking part by making the method part of your type definition and setting it's type to the string literal:

type Get = {
  method: 'GET';
...

Inside of an if/switch-case that checks method typescript only allows access to the proper fields.
In case you cover all cases in a switch, inside default, the type of the variable will be never.
Typescript calls this "Discriminated Unions":
typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/a...
(There is no way to link directly to the section, you need to search for the term on the page.)