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Discussion on: Type safety in JavaScript with JSDoc and VSCode

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Iakiv Kramarenko • Edited

Hey!

How can I add type hint to the object that is a generic function?

I want something like:

/**
 * @callback ReturnsJQuery
 * @returns {JQuery<E>}
 * @template {Node} E
 */

/** 
 * @type ReturnsJQuery<E>
 * @template {Node} E
 */
this.fn = ...
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or

/**
 * @typedef {() => JQuery<E> } ReturnsJQuery
 * @template {Node} E
 */

/** 
 * @type ReturnsJQuery<E>
 * @template {Node} E
 */
this.fn = ...
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is something like this even possible?

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t7yang

If you want to define class method, please see the "Type class and this" section, you should not define the method when assigning value.

If you use prototype based paradigm rather than class, you can check this page. The generic type definition remain same.