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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Broken Octokit Types","articleBody":"The GitHub Feed types are not type safe, caused by broken Octokit types.\n\nhttps://github.com/dsnsgithub/dsns.dev/blob/e18d09af6521cb842a8b400dbde1eaad241a8621/src/components/GithubFeed.astro#L94-L102\n\n\nI will have to fork it and update the types myself, since apparently there is no maintainer for the official Octokit JS repositories anymore.\nhttps://github.com/octokit/openapi-types.ts/issues/232#issuecomment-3829345747\nhttps://github.com/octokit/rest.js/issues/128\n\n# My Fix\n\n## Use my [fork](https://github.com/dsnsgithub/openapi-types.ts), add this to `package.json`[^1]:\n\n```json\n\"overrides\": {\n    \"@octokit/openapi-types\": \"github:dsnsgithub/openapi-types.ts#main\"\n},\n```\n\n[^1]: You may have to delete `node_modules`/`package-lock.json` and reset Vercel build cache for the override to take effect.\n\n\nUse this hack to typeguard:\n```ts\nexport type EventPayloadMap = {\n  CreateEvent: components[\"schemas\"][\"create-event\"];\n  DeleteEvent: components[\"schemas\"][\"delete-event\"];\n  DiscussionEvent: components[\"schemas\"][\"discussion-event\"];\n  IssuesEvent: components[\"schemas\"][\"issues-event\"];\n  IssueCommentEvent: components[\"schemas\"][\"issue-comment-event\"];\n  ForkEvent: components[\"schemas\"][\"fork-event\"];\n  GollumEvent: components[\"schemas\"][\"gollum-event\"];\n  MemberEvent: components[\"schemas\"][\"member-event\"];\n  PublicEvent: components[\"schemas\"][\"public-event\"];\n  PushEvent: components[\"schemas\"][\"push-event\"];\n  PullRequestEvent: components[\"schemas\"][\"pull-request-event\"];\n  PullRequestReviewCommentEvent: components[\"schemas\"][\"pull-request-review-comment-event\"];\n  PullRequestReviewEvent: components[\"schemas\"][\"pull-request-review-event\"];\n  CommitCommentEvent: components[\"schemas\"][\"commit-comment-event\"];\n  ReleaseEvent: components[\"schemas\"][\"release-event\"];\n  WatchEvent: components[\"schemas\"][\"watch-event\"];\n};\n\nfunction isEvent\u003cT extends keyof EventPayloadMap\u003e(\n  event: components[\"schemas\"][\"event\"],\n  type: T\n): event is components[\"schemas\"][\"event\"] \u0026 { type: T; payload: EventPayloadMap[T] } {\n  return event.type === type;\n}\n```\n\nExample Usage:\n\n```ts\nimport { Octokit } from \"@octokit/rest\";\nimport type { components } from \"@octokit/openapi-types\";\n\n...\n\nconst res = await octokit.rest.activity.listPublicEventsForUser({\n\tusername: \"dsnsgithub\"\n})\n\nfor (const event of res.data) {\n\tif (isEvent(event, \"PullRequestEvent\")) {\n\t\t// event is now PullRequestEvent and is typeguarded.\n\t}  else if (isEvent(event, \"IssuesEvent\")) {\n\t\t// event is now IssuesEvent and is typeguarded.\n\t}\n}\n```","author":{"url":"https://github.com/dsnsgithub","@type":"Person","name":"dsnsgithub"},"datePublished":"2026-02-04T09:10:34.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/6/dsns.dev/issues/6"}