A new milestone in my life

Hello, my dear friends! I hope you and your families are doing well.

This update will be short.

Last weekend was my birthday. I am now 28.

I am slowly approaching the thirties club.

And I am not depressed about it (for now haha).

Tip of the week

In today's tip of the week, I want to talk about why I don't use TypeScript enums and what I use instead.

TypeScript enums implementation has many problems:

• Enums increase the size of the payload.
• They are challenging to iterate over.
• They are useless at runtime.

So what do I use instead? I use an array with const assertion.

Here is an example:

This solution is easy to understand, simple to iterate over, and usable at runtime!

You can use the Roles type to validate types and roles to validate inputs.

Cool right?

Articles

I added two new articles on the axios npm library:

• How to send the bearer token with axios?
• How to set up a request timeout in axios?

Thank you for reading.

See you next week!

Tim M.

written by:

Tim Mouskhelichvili

Hello! I am Tim Mouskhelichvili, a Freelance Developer & Consultant from Montreal, Canada. I specialize in React, Node.js & TypeScript application development. If you need help on a project, please reach out, and let’s work together.

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