Iterating over Typescript Map

Question

I\'m trying to iterate over a typescript map but I keep getting errors and I could not find any solution yet for such a trivial problem.

My code is:

Answer 1

Per the TypeScript 2.3 release notes on "New --downlevelIteration":

for..of statements, Array Destructuring, and Spread elements in Array, Call, and New expressions support Symbol.iterator in ES5/E3 if available when using --downlevelIteration

This is not enabled by default! Add "downlevelIteration": true to your tsconfig.json, or pass --downlevelIteration flag to tsc, to get full iterator support.

With this in place, you can write for (let keyval of myMap) {...} and keyval's type will be automatically inferred.

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Why is this turned off by default? According to TypeScript contributor @aluanhaddad,

It is optional because it has a very significant impact on the size of generated code, and potentially on performance, for all uses of iterables (including arrays).

If you can target ES2015 ("target": "es2015" in tsconfig.json or tsc --target ES2015) or later, enabling downlevelIteration is a no-brainer, but if you're targeting ES5/ES3, you might benchmark to ensure iterator support doesn't impact performance (if it does, you might be better off with Array.from conversion or forEach or some other workaround).