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Generic and Classes

Generic and Classes

This lesson delves into making classes more reusable with generic types.

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A simple class #

Engineers with an object-oriented background may associate the concept of generic with classes. It is a mechanism to generalize a class, to avoid duplicating the definition for each flavor of a class.

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TypeScript 3.3.4
// Three classes
class Human {
    public greeting: string = "Hello";
}
class Lion {
    public greeting: string = "Grrrrrr";
}
class Tulip {
    public greeting: string = "...";
}
class LivingSpecies_1 {
    public species: Human;
    constructor(species: Human) {
        this.species = species;
    }
    public sayHello(): void {
        console.log(this.species.greeting);
    }
}
const species1 = new LivingSpecies_1(new Human());
species1.sayHello();

The code above might work even if we pass a different class object i.e. Lion or Tulip (which is not considered a good coding practice and may cause mayhem) to it because TypeScript is structural based and not nominal, which means it does not rely on the name but on the ...

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