Glossary term
What is generic? Meaning for developers
In Senior Frontend Depth
A type parameter. One function or type then works for many types and keeps the link between them.
Learn it properly · Senior Frontend DepthLesson 4: Advanced TypeScript for Interviews: Generics, Narrowing, Utility and Conditional TypesGeneric constraints, discriminated unions, infer, mapped types, satisfies, and keeping API response types correct from the server to the UI.In TypeScript From Zero
Types and functions that take type parameters, so one definition works for many types.
Learn it properly · TypeScript From ZeroLesson 3: Functions and GenericsFunction types, overloads, this parameters, generics and constraints, a typed fetch wrapper and a typed event emitter.