javascript - TypeScript static classes

Question

I wanted to move to TypeScript from traditional JS because I like the C#-like syntax. My problem is that I can't find out how to declare static classes in TypeScript.

In C#, I often use static classes to organize variables and methods, putting them together in a named class, without needing to instatiate an object. In vanilla JS, I used to do this with a simple JS object:

var myStaticClass = {
    property: 10,
    method: function(){}
}

In TypeScript, I would rather go for my C-sharpy approach, but it seems that static classes don't exist in TS. What is the appropriate solution for this problem ?

Answer 1

Abstract classes have been a first-class citizen of TypeScript since TypeScript 1.6. You cannot instantiate an abstract class.

Here is an example:

export abstract class MyClass {         
    public static myProp = "Hello";

    public static doSomething(): string {
      return "World";
    }
}

const okay = MyClass.doSomething();

//const errors = new MyClass(); // Error