Creating a context with no default and no undefined check

This is the final post in a series of posts on React context with TypeScript. In the previous post, we consumed a context in a class component.

This is the final post in a series of posts on React context with TypeScript. In the previous post, we consumed a context in a class component. In this post, we will learn how to create a context without having to pass a default and then do any undefined checks when consuming it.

The problem

The type for createContext requires a default value to be passed into it, but often it doesn’t make sense to pass a default. So, we end up passing undefined as the default:

const ThemeContext = React.createContext<
  ThemeContextType | undefined
>(undefined);

… and then checking for undefined everywhere we consume it:

const { theme, setTheme } = useTheme()!;

A quick solution

A quick solution to the problem is to use the not-null assertion operator and remove undefined from the context type.

const ThemeContext = React.createContext<
  ThemeContextType
>(undefined!);

This works nicely because consuming code doesn’t need undefined checks. However, we are still passing a default.

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