🏷️ Emulating Associated Value Enums in TypeScript

This project demonstrates how to emulate Swift's Associated Value Enums in TypeScript.

🍏 Swift allows defining Associated Value Enums that can contain other types within them. While TypeScript doesn't support this natively, it can be emulated using Interfaces and Type Unions.

💻 Code Example

The code example creates a Barcode object with two methods:

• 📊 upc: Creates a new barcode object with UPC values
• 📱 qrCode: Creates a new barcode object with QR code values

It also includes two utility methods:

• ✅ isUPC: Checks if a given barcode is a UPC
• ✅ isQRCode: Checks if a given barcode is a QR code

The switch method returns a new BarcodeSwitchBuilder object that allows you to build a switch statement based on the barcode type.

🧪 Running the Tests

This project includes a Mocha test to ensure that the BarcodeSwitchBuilder works as expected.

To run the tests, execute the following command in your terminal:

npm test

🎓 Conclusion

Emulating Associated Value Enums in TypeScript can be achieved using Interfaces and Type Unions. The example provided in this project demonstrates one approach to accomplish this.