Box 'em! - Property references for TypeScript

TYPESCRIPT MOBX REACT BOXM 2017-01-11

This concerns quite an abstract, simple building block, but it is a neat tool for use with React and MobX. In MobX there's a utility observable.box (docs). But I don't want to use that create all my properties and have to put .get() after every read access. I want to use the cool @observable decorator and just fetch my properties directly, and assign new values with =. What I need is a way to box a property. Oh, and it better be statically type checked in TypeScript.

For the overall idea, see the project page, or just look at the takeaway:

Read on...