Non strict string literal types

Hey everyone. I want to keep intellisense suggestions when defining something like this:

type SuggestedStrings = "cat" | "dog" | string;

type SuggestedStrings = "cat" | "dog" | string;

I want to be able to accept any other string but have suggestions when defining a variable.

I am not sure what would be the right keyword to search for in this situation.

FursumOP•1/2/23, 3:07 AM

Using uppercase

String

String

seems to be working, though I am not sure if it is completely safe to do so in my situation with React stuff. It is only defined as a type, so I am assuming it wouldn't do some coersion in the background prayge

FursumOP•1/3/23, 9:55 AM

the utility type is a cool idea, thanks!

FursumOP•1/3/23, 10:02 AM

string literal union autocomplete

yeah...
https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/29729

GitHub

Literal String Union Autocomplete · Issue #29729 · microsoft/TypeSc...

Autocomplete works for literal string unions, but adding a union of string negates autocomplete entirely. This has been brought up before but I believe there is enough value in this feature to be r...

bedesqui•1/3/23, 10:39 AM

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