How to get type of array items?

Question

If I have a type type foo = Array<{ name: string; test: number; }>, would it be possible to get the type of the values within the array, in this case, the

Answer 1

We can also use an indexed access operator like this:

const someArray = [
    {
        foo: '',
        bar: '',
        baz: ''
    },
    {
        foo: '',
        bar: '',
        baz: ''
    }
];

// indexed access operator
type SomeArray = typeof someArray[number];

There is a write-up on those here: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/advanced-types.html

The second operator is T[K], the indexed access operator.