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javascriptc#typescriptcompile-timestrong-typing
Tomas Kubes
Tomas Kubes

Reputation: 25158

Check in compile-time that javascript / typescript objects correspond to C# object

We are developing a Web API RESTful service in C# and UI in React + Typescript.

After I renamed/add/remove some proeprties in C# REstAPI models the web UI stopped to work, because I forgot to rename it in UI.

Futhermore it is for me almost impossible to find all usage of API calls of such objects.

I would like to configure strongly typed, compiled time checked system that typescript object will be mapped somehow to C# object and compiler will check it.

I can image that I (programmer) would mark javascript/typescript object with some metadata (C# namespace and class name).

How can I do that.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 64

Answers (1)

Alchemy
Alchemy

Reputation: 445

The key to resolving this issue is to abstract out a level to a configurable multi-language definition. From that definition you will be able generate both c# and typescript object definitions. The two major type descriptive options are Protos , and OpenApi from Google/Microsoft respectively.

This allows your workflow to become:

  1. Change the type configuration.
  2. Build the type configuration into the C# and Typescript definitions.
  3. Build the C# and Typescript libraries.

This ensures the object definitions are always in sync as the C# and Typescript libraries can depend directly on the auto-generated code.

Upvotes: 1

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