Private(set) keyword

[FilipeBeck]

Suggestion

✅ Viability Checklist

My suggestion meets these guidelines:

• This wouldn't be a breaking change in existing TypeScript/JavaScript code
• This wouldn't change the runtime behavior of existing JavaScript code
• This could be implemented without emitting different JS based on the types of the expressions
• This isn't a runtime feature (e.g. library functionality, non-ECMAScript syntax with JavaScript output, new syntax sugar for JS, etc.)
• This feature would agree with the rest of TypeScript's Design Goals.

⭐ Suggestion

A keyword (private(set), maybe) to allow fields that are public for reading and private for writing.

Workaround:

class MyClass {
  public readonly privateSetProp: number

  someMethod() {
    (this.privateSetProp as any) = 10
  }
}

[MartinJohns]

Duplicate of #37487. Used search terms: private public in:title. What search terms did you use?

[FilipeBeck]

I used private set. Closing