Typescript check if a value is string

Question

I have a component:

export type IDAta = string | number | null;

interface IDAta {
  data?: string | number | null;
  verify: boolean;
}

const App: React.FC<IDAta> = ({
  data = '',
  verify = true,
}) => {

  if ((data || data === 0) {
    return (
      <div>
        {verify && isText(data) ? (
          <Child text={data} />
        ) : (
          data
        )}
      </div>
    );
  }

};

export default App;

isText and Child component expect the parameters only to be string, but doing this verify && isText(data) then i get error in typescript like Type 'number' is not assignable to type 'string'. . This could be solved as follow:

{
  verify && typeof data === 'string' && isText(data) ? ( 
  <Child text = {data as string}/>
  ) : (
    data
  )
}

I am not sure if this solution is ok, because typeof data === 'string' double the logic from isText function which looks like this:

const isText = (data: string) => {
  return typeof data === 'string';
};

Question: What will be the best solution to solve the issue described above?

James McMahon · Accepted Answer · 2023-06-16 04:03:42Z

30

A type guard/predicate function:

function isText(data: unknown): data is string {
  return typeof data === 'string';
};

edited Jun 16, 2023 at 4:03

James McMahon

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answered Aug 30, 2021 at 10:06

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8 Comments

Asking Over a year ago

it helps, but i try to avoid any, is there a solution without using any? I want to specify that data could be only a string like data:string.In your example i specify that returned value could be a value from ANY

captain-yossarian from Ukraine Over a year ago

You can use unknown instead. Honestly I don't see anything bad in using any in this particular case

Asking Over a year ago

@captain-yossarian, in the case above we don't specify that data could be only string, we said that returned value could be anything. In this way i think i loose the strict checking types.

captain-yossarian from Ukraine Over a year ago

Return valud of isText is a bollean type while argument of function could be anuthing

captain-yossarian from Ukraine Over a year ago

No, data is string means that it is a special syntax of a typeguard. isText returns boolean and helps TS to narrow the type. It is a confirmation that if isText returns true - data is string

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