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MIDIMessageEvent data is incorrectly typed

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Since Sep 19, 2026.

  • #64341 by @copilot-swe-agent — open
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Description

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In https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/pull/57027 MIDIMessageEvent.data was changed from Uint8Array to Uint8Array | null (see https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/pull/57027/files#diff-dc0eab937d15e62545da3ed7b4f40ad6b24f15dd88fbc6ceda2bfb4ed8356eb0L14670).

According to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MIDIMessageEvent/data data the value will always be an Uint8Array.

🕗 Version & Regression Information

This changed in #57027

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🙁 Actual behavior

'event.data' is possibly 'null'.ts(18047)

🙂 Expected behavior

No warning about data property possibly being null.

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