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Instantiable types from return types of contextual signatures don't provide contextual type information for return expressions
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Description
### 🔎 Search Terms
instantiable contextual signature return types
### 🕗 Version & Regression Information
- This is the behavior in every version I tried
### ⏯ Playground Link
https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?ts=5.8.0-dev.20250216#code/C4TwDgpgBAwg9gO2BAHsAysAhsgzlAXgCgooAfKAbxNNt22AFdcAuKAIgBs4sATASwQBzdgG4atKLxxY2CRp07jJAXxoVqk0vRzM27XIwDGRiLlxiJtadjb0AToKHLaK8UV4QjnLPegAzRgQjYH5EKCM-HAhMOD8AHgAVeCRUYAA+AAoaI0RkNDZkvLSAGhzEf34hNk1aRDYAJS843niHJxKoTJCUQpT84ABKQnSoItS0dJcVMsG2ADc4fl53XIR6KHo46AIIqORYv2zSWu0GPQ5uPid2MskbWSh5RTuoFSgsfH60zGjcV9OUHqVCspH8EGARgAFmxMsMCKNMoDJDomKwOIYTGYLK8tFIZPooRBFHBbqC3oNcW9XjMiINxEA
### 💻 Code
```ts
type ContextStates =
| {
status: "loading";
data: null;
}
| {
status: "success";
data: string;
};
declare function createStore(
context: TContext,
config: {
on: Record TContext>;
},
): void;
const store = createStore(
{
status: "loading",
data: null,
} as ContextStates,
{
on: {
fetch: () => ({
status: "success",
data: "hello",
}),
},
},
);
```
### 🙁 Actual behavior
`status: "success",` errors
### 🙂 Expected behavior
no error
### Additional information about the issue
Making `(ctx: TContext) => TContext` into a type parameter makes it work (see [TS playground](https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?ts=5.8.0-dev.20250216#code/C4TwDgpgBAwg9gO2BAHsAysAhsgzlAXgCgooAfKAbxNNt22AFdcAuKAIgBs4sATASwQBzdgG4atKLxxY2CRp07jJAXxoVqk0vRzM27XIwDGRiLlxiJtadjb0AToKHLaK8UV4QjnLPegAzRgQjYH5EKCM-HAhMOD8AHhoAFXgkVGAAGmSk+ywEXH5Q8PSIBF58AAoQlDYUxGQ0AEpCAD4oOrS0LJaKmiN69NrUhsy+xH9+ITZNWkQ2ACUvON54hycM9py8gqKEFpcVLMa2ADc4fl53fvzgKHo46AIIqORYv17SGe0GPQ5uPic7Cykhssig8kUwKgKigWHww3SmGiuChXygcyoVlI-ggwCMAAs2BVmgQ2hU0ZIdExWBxDCYzBYoVopDJ9PiIIo4ECsdDGkzoVDDkRGuIgA)) but that's not natural to write and isn't broadly applicable as a workaround
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by running the linked TypeScript Playground reproduction and compare it with the provided generic-type workaround. Investigate why the return expression in the contextual signature is rejected, and consider the issue complete when the original example type-checks without the workaround.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- compilers
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100