TypeScript: type of the current class as a type variable

Question

I want to declare a function in TypeScript that returns the type of the current instance type, for example. in a free API that returns this .

Is there a type variable for this type? (I would prefer not to use the ugly Java method X<T extends X<T>> .)

Answer 1

There is no way to do this in TypeScript yet. See Question https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/285 for voting / discussion.