How to iterate over keys of a generic object in TypeScript?

for..in

When looking at the Typescript documentation (Typescript: Iterators and Generators), we see that the for..in syntax will iterate over the keys of the object.

for..in returns a list of keys on the object being iterated, whereas for..of returns a list of values of the numeric properties of the object being iterated.

We can use that to our advantage to index into our object and get the strongly typed value:

// Go through each key of the indexed object:
for (const key in indexedObject)
{
   // Get the indexed item by the key:
   const indexedItem = indexedObject[key];
   // Now we have the item.

   // Use it...
}

Solution

We can use that to get an elegant solution to the question:

// Go through each key in the bigObject:
for (const key in bigObject)
{
   // Get the strongly typed value with this name:
   const value = bigObject[key];
   // Now we have the the strongly typed value for this key (depending on how bigObject was typed in the first place).

   // Do something interesting with the property of bigObject...
}