This Is How I Mastered TypeScript Like I'm 5 (Type, Interfaces & Inheritance!)(4)

Today! We’re going to Continue TypeScript learning like you’re a smart 5-year-old who loves to build things and asks “why?” (which is the best thing ever).

& yes “why?” is my way of learning.

I've divided this into 20 Chapters. and will go one by one and each will be of 2 - 3 min. of read.
This is a Continuation, if you have not read Previous chapter - Chapter 3

This is Chapter ⓸ TS Mastering

🧩 Chapter 5: Type Aliases & Interfaces

(aka: “Why repeat yourself when you can name your thing once?”)

🎭 Imagine this:

You keep writing this:

let person: { name: string; age: number; isCool: boolean } 

over and over and over again... 🥱

Wouldn’t it be cool to say:

“Let’s call a common type for Person!”

✅ Type Aliases – Give a shape a nickname

Think of it like, using a same type instance for similar type of objects.
Here Both, me and friend is of type - Person

type Person = { name: string; age: number; isCool: boolean; }; let me: Person = { name: "Karandeep Singh", age: 25, isCool: true, }; let friend: Person = { name: "some name", age: 25, isCool: true, }; 

Now, instead of rewriting the full type again & again, just say :Person as the type for every person object you create.

🤝 Interfaces – Like type, but for teamwork!

interface Car { brand: string; speed: number; electric?: boolean; // optional } let myCar: Car = { brand: "BMW M5", speed: 200, }; 

Interfaces are great when many people or pieces of code work together, like a contract everyone agrees on 🤝

🥊 Type vs Interface: What’s the difference?

For most cases, either works fine — go with what feels good!

🔧 Extending Types – Inheritance!

type Animal = { name: string; }; type Dog = Animal & { barkVolume: number; }; let d: Dog = { name: "Bruno", barkVolume: 8, }; 

OR using interface:

interface Animal { name: string; } interface Dog extends Animal { barkVolume: number; } 

Both ways say:

"Dog is like Animal… plus extra properties"

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