Understanding Typescript Intersection Types

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Scenario

We have two interfaces. Interface A:

interface A { a: string }

And interface B:

interface B { b: number }

And we have a variable that has to contain the intersection of both interface types and we want to declare this.

Approach

var ab: A & B = { a: 'Hola!', b: 1 };

Note that because ab is of type A & B this will give a design time error:

var a: A & B = { a: "hola!" };

We are missing b .

Demo

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