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Discussion on: Managing Key-Value Constants in TypeScript

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Suguru Inatomi

As far as I know, there isn't an advantage technically. But I prefer union types because enum is not an ECMAScript's standard syntax.
After transpilation, output code with a tuple and an object is similar to the original TS code, but output code with enum is different from the original TS code a lot.
I think a big value of TypeScript is the mindset; it is a superset of ECMAScript. So I don't want to use enum.

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Michael De Abreu

As long as you know what it becomes, I always suggest the usage of the languages features. Whatever they are.

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Sean Wood

I hear what you're saying! But that's similar to buying a bigger car and never putting anything in the extra space because it wasn't available in your standard car.

I think that the choice of adopting Typescript as a language comes with the acceptance of a build step, the outcome of which is up to the compiler.