Opinion: Don’t use class for data structure in typescript (2019). Use interface only

Always use interfaces instead

Problems of class:

  • Lots of frameworks such as Redux don’t support class instances. They only support plain objects. There are tools that can convert plain objects to class instances, but the point below makes it awkward.
  • Given a variable “someType: SomeType” in the code, you don’t know if it is a plain object or a class instance. So you don’t know if you can call its methods, or if it is OK to call plainToClass() to convert it to a class instance.

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