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Trouble with your const there as written is that you don’t have a type that’s equal to "GET" | "POST". Fortunately, this can be done without repetition or too much bother:

  const HttpMethod = {
      Get: 'GET',
      Post: 'POST',
  } as const;
  type HttpMethod = (typeof HttpMethod)[keyof typeof HttpMethod];
Maybe wrap the `{…} as const` in Object.freeze(…) for good measure.

It’d be really nice if they’d improve the ergonomics on this in some way (`type Values<T> = T[keyof T]` would reduce it to `type HttpMethod = Values<typeof HttpMethod>`, which is a start but not enough), to make it a genuine and suitable alternative to enum (minus the other frippery that’s generated) and const enum (because it’s pure JavaScript, not an extension).



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