To easily make a new type by removing or omitting certain properties from another type in TypeScript, you can use the Omit utility type and pass the name of the type you want to remove the properties from as its first type argument, and the properties you need to remove as a string literal union type or as a string as its second type argument.
TL;DR
// a simple interface
interface Person {
name: string;
age: number;
dob: string;
salary: number;
}
// make new type by omiting the `salary`
// property from the `Person` interface
// using the `Omit` utility type
type NecessaryDetails = Omit<Person, "salary">;
/*
Content of `NecessaryDetails` type
{
name: string;
age: number;
dob: string;
}
*/
For example, let's say we have an interface called Person with some properties called name having the type of string, age having the type of number, dob having the type of string, and salary having the type of number like this,
// a simple interface
interface Person {
name: string;
age: number;
dob: string;
salary: number;
}
Now let's say we need to make a new type where we need the name, age, and the dob properties but not the salary property from the Person interface, to do that we can use the Omit utility type and pass the Person type as its first type argument and string salary as its second type argument like this,
// a simple interface
interface Person {
name: string;
age: number;
dob: string;
salary: number;
}
// make new type by omiting the `salary`
// property from the `Person` interface
// using the `Omit` utility type
type NecessaryDetails = Omit<Person, "salary">;
/*
Content of `NecessaryDetails` type
{
name: string;
age: number;
dob: string;
}
*/
Now if you hover over the NecessaryDetails type, you can see that the name, age, and dob properties are picked from the Person interface except the salary property which is now available in the NecessaryDetails type.
We have successfully made a new type by removing or omitting certain properties from another type in TypeScript. Yay 🥳!
See the above code live in codesandbox.
That's all 😃!
