Help with typechecking custom enums module

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A year later, I’ve managed to understand type generics and found a not-so-elegant-but-works-for-me solution:

local EnumsModule = {}

EnumsModule.newStringEnum = function<T>(enumTable: T)
	local stringEnumTable = {}
	for key,val in enumTable do 
		stringEnumTable[key] = key
	end
	table.freeze(stringEnumTable)
	return stringEnumTable :: T
end

return EnumsModule

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It requires me to type in the enum “table” values with empty strings (or any string as it’s just used for the type inference anyway), but the end result is where I only type it out once and autofill works. Ain’t that just nice?

EDIT (Feb 26, 2025):
Another year later…
The Plant reference project has a much safer way of doing this:
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So you get all the benefits of strict mode like:
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I ended up typing all the names this way anyway😅 It’s not really much trouble once you get used to it…

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