How to make object properties boolean type values to boolean literal type in TypeScript?

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To make the object properties boolean type values to boolean literals, we can use the as keyword after the property boolean value and then type out the boolean literals true or false or we can use the as keyword after accessing the property then typing out the boolean literals true or false.

TL;DR

METHOD 1

// a simple object
// with "isAdmin" property type changed
// from "boolean" to "true" boolean literal
const person = {
  name: "John Doe",
  isAdmin: true as true,
};

METHOD 2

// a simple object
const person2 = {
  name: "John Doe",
  isAdmin: true,
};

// a simple function call
// with "isAdmin" property type changed
// from "boolean" to true boolean literal
sayIsAdmin(person2.isAdmin as true);

To understand it better, let's say we have an object called person with two properties called name and isAdmin with values of John Doe and true respectively like this,

// a simple object
const person = {
  name: "John Doe",
  isAdmin: true,
};

Now if you hover over the isAdmin property in the person object it shows the type of the isAdmin property as boolean like in the below image,

This is ok for most cases. But in some cases, you may need to convert the isAdmin property's type from just boolean to a boolean literal to pass it to a function call as an argument.

To do that, we can use the as keyword after the isAdmin property's boolean value and then type the boolean literal (either true or false) we need to use. In our case, let's change it to true boolean literal type. It can be done like this,

// a simple object
// with "isAdmin" property type converted
// from just "boolean" to "true" boolean literal
const person = {
  name: "John Doe",
  isAdmin: true as true,
};

Now if you hover over the isAdmin property you can see that the type of the isAdmin property is changed from boolean to true boolean literal which is what we want.

It may look like this,

Another way of achieving the same functionality is using the as keyword and typing the boolean literal when we are only accessing the property from the object.

For example, let's assume a function called sayIsAdmin, and on calling the function let's pass the isAdmin property value like this,

// a simple object
const person = {
  name: "John Doe",
  isAdmin: true,
};

// a simple function call
sayIsAdmin(person.isAdmin);

Now to change the type of the isAdmin property from boolean to "true" boolean literal we can use the as keyword after the person.isAdmin and type the boolean literal like this,

// a simple object
const person = {
  name: "John Doe",
  isAdmin: true,
};

// a simple function call
// with "isAdmin" property type changed
// from "boolean" to "true" boolean literal
sayIsAdmin(person.isAdmin as true);

This is also a valid way of achieving the same functionality.

See the working of the above codes live in codesandbox

That's all 😃!

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