How To Strongly Type process.env
Learn how to strongly type process.env in TypeScript by either augmenting global type or validating it at runtime with t3-env.
In TypeScript, if you try to assign to a property of a possibly undefined object, you'll get an error:
'X' is possibly undefined.
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obj .foo = "bar";
You might think that you can use the optional chaining syntax to fix this:
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obj ?.foo = "bar";
But you end up with an error:
The left-hand side of an assignment expression may not be an optional property access.
This is because optional chaining is only for reading properties (or deleting properties), not for assigning to them.
But today, the optional chaining for assignments proposal has landed in Stage 1 of TC39.
If this proposal gets adopted into JavaScript, the code below will no longer error.
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obj ?.foo = "bar";
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