While working with the "Tour of Heroes" tutorial on the Angular website I found the following syntax (shortly):
class Hero {
id: number,
name: string,
}
const aHero: Hero = {
id: 1,
name: 'Superman'
}
console.log(aHero instanceof Hero); //false
What would be the point in doing this? when if I check the type of "aHero", it is only a common object and not a "Hero" type. Would it be better just initializing an object with a constructor?:
class Hero {
constructor(id: number, name: string) {}
}
You can use class as a type which is the way you're using it. So, whether Hero is an interface or class it doesn't matter because you're using it as a type.
class Hero { id: number; name: string }
or
interface Hero { id: number; name: string }
The following doesn't concern whether Hero is a class or interface
let hero: Hero = { id: 1, name: 'me' }
Where interface
and class
differentiate is interface
is only for you, it doesn't get transpiled into javascript. A class
does and you cannot new
an interface
.
Constructor or no Constructor, if you new
it then it is an instanceof
. Try it again with this
let hero = new Hero();
Your instanceof
log will be true
because you did create an instance of Hero with the key word new
.
I know this question has been answered before but as far as object oriented code goes it was always like this.
I believe you can do this without a constructor:
let hero: Hero = { ID: 1, Name: 'goku'};
but if you want to instantiate with the constructor you can do this in the class
class Hero
{
//notice optional parameters. You have more flexibility this way.
constructor(id?: number, name?: string)
{
this.ID = id;
this.Name = name;
}
ID: number;
Name: string
}
And do this with the implementation
let hero: Hero = new Hero(1,'goku');
let hero2: Hero = { ID: 2, Name: 'superman' }