Is function isObjectLike checks the type?

[polemius]

From documentation I am not quite understanding what really do isObjectLike?

Documentation says Returns whether the payload is an object like a type passed in < >

I can see that If I passed not an object then it will return the false:

isObjectLike<{a: string}>(true) // false

But If I passed some object it will return the true any way:

isObjectLike<{a: string}>({b: 3}) // true

Link to TS playgound

[mesqueeb]

@polemius yeah, I once long ago used it to make some manual type casting easier.

with the hope to one day improve it to have it actually check the object itself, but soon I realised that that's an extremely complex issue and kind of out of scope :S

But back in the day I found it prettier to do type casting with that isObjectLike as opposed to casting something to any.

[polemius]

@mesqueeb I understand now. Thank you for explanation