Obtaining the return type of a function

Question

I have the following function:

function test(): number {
    return 42;
}

I can obtain the type of the function by using typeof

Answer 1

There isn't a way to do this (see https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/6606 for the work item tracking adding this).

A common workaround is write something like:

var dummy = false && test();
type t2 = typeof dummy;