Typescript: Suggestion/feature request - enforce static properties/fields

[ORESoftware]

I added this question on SO:

is there a way to enforce static class properties? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48813814/enforce-static-member-in-class-using-enum

It doesn't look like there is a way to do what I want to do, hence the feature request.

Code

declare enum Foods {
  CHERRY = 'CHERRY',
  LETTUCE = 'LETTUCE',
  JERKY = 'JERKY'
}

declare abstract class ForceFoods {
  static food : Foods
}

export class MyFoods implements ForceFoods {
  static food = Foods.CHERRY;  // if I omit this line, tsc will not complain
}

Expected behavior:
I was hoping tsc could enforce static properties to be defined

Actual behavior:
I don't currently believe tsc can enforce static properties

[mhegazy]

Now that we have --strictPropertyInitialization and ! operator for asserting definite assignment, we should consider making an uninitialized static property an error.

That does not solve your problem thought.. it will give you an error on ForceFoods as well as on MyFoods. I think you are looking for https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/14600 for abstract static properties/methods.