What is proper TypeScript type for Button click event?

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Peter
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Peter asked on 20 May 2021, 02:25 PM | edited on 20 May 2021, 02:27 PM

In the example here:  https://www.telerik.com/kendo-react-ui/components/buttons/button/

you use the "any" type for the event return.  What is the proper  type to use, and if "any" is really correct, please explain why.  I usually think of "any" as the type to use when I don't understand what the proper type I should be using is. (same with newLogs though I'm not using logs, just seems unusual to see "any" used in library docs)

 


const ButtonContainer = () => {
  const [logs, setLogs] = React.useState([]);

  const handleDomEvent = (event: any) => {
    let newLogs: any = logs.slice();

    newLogs.unshift(event.type);

    setLogs(logs);
  };
  return (
    <>
      <Button
        onClick={handleDomEvent}
        onMouseDown={handleDomEvent}
        onMouseUp={handleDomEvent}
        onFocus={handleDomEvent}
        onBlur={handleDomEvent}
        onKeyPress={handleDomEvent}
      >
        My Button
      </Button>
      <EventLog title="Event Log" logs={logs} />
    </>
  );
};

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Krissy
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answered on 21 May 2021, 09:38 AM

Hi Peter,

The reason why "any" type was used in that particular example is because there are multiple types of events that are triggering that event handler.
A more specific type definition can indeed be used and I've changed the example from our documentation to include that: 
https://stackblitz.com/edit/react-buttons-events-ts?file=app/main.tsx 

As for the logs, the "Array<string>" type can be used in this case, it is also shown in the example above.

Hope this helps clarify.

Regards,
Krissy
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