TypeScript - difference between import … and import {…} (with curly braces)

Question

Coming from Java to TS, I\'ve omitted the {...} around the imported type.

import DiscriminatorMappingData from \'./DiscriminatorMappingData\';
         


        

Answer 1

This is imports in destructruring format. Essentially grouping all the entities that we want to be imported from a definition file.

If you are familiar with other programming languages you might be familiar with the destructuring notion. Actually destructuring was added in the form of assignments as part of es6.

Import restructuring support was first suggested in TypeScript in this Github ticket but then got grouped under this ticket that was tracking all the es6 modules.