Thomas Levesque
I've been using TypeScript on a regular basis for about 6 months now, and this is the biggest pitfall I've seen so far:
Jan 4, 2023 at 1:27pmWeb
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@thomaslevesque

What is date then ? a string ?

Show threadThomas LevesqueJan 4, 2023
@candoumbe JSON doesn't have a date type, so it's represented as a string. JSON.parse knows nothing about types, so when it sees a string in JSON, it deserializes as a string. The TypeScript declaration as Date has no effect.