Three ways to define and use a Map in Typescript

I am not sure how many ways exactly to use a Map in Typescript. Just to list three here I believe are most commonly seen.

• 1: use [key: stirng]: any

Javascript objects can be used as Map straight away. We can assign as many as key-value pairs we want into a Javascript object and then access values using square bracket notation. When using Typescript, we need to define a type for it:

type MyMap = {
  [key: string]: any
}
const

This is to define a Map type using string value as keys, and values can be any type

const myMap: MyMap = new Object() as MyMap
myMap['name'] = 'Jack'
myMap['age'] = 25

• 2: Use Record<string, any>

Instead of creating a Map type manually, we can borrow Typescript built-in utility Record

const myMap: Record<string, any> = new Object() as Record<string, any>
myMap['name'] = 'Jack'
myMap['age'] = 25

• 3: Use built-in Map

const myMap: Map<string, any> = new Map<string, any>()
myMap.set('name', 'Jack')
myMap.get('name')

One of the advantages of using built-in Map is the convenience of built-in Map methods such as get, set and clear etc.