[throwanem]

Eh. A good ORM provides type definitions from model definitions, which is one way I've found ORMs more useful in TS than JS, and I'd more likely use a runtype or a decoder to both validate and type inbound data than roll my own interface for it.

On review of documentation, I was actually pretty off base in grandparent comment. The real use case for Record appears to be when you need a map type whose keys are both explicitly enumerated and defined elsewhere, ie in a union, enum, or otherwise unrelated object type. Rather than duplicating the keys, you can use Record<someUnion, V> or Record<keyof typeof someEnum, V> and only have to make one change to update both.

For the "arbitrary keys, known value types" case I mentioned earlier, an object type with an index signature works fine and may be more legible.

[chana_masala]

> an object type with an index signature works fine and may be more legible.

If I understand you correctly, that's exactly what a Record is underneath

[throwanem]

More or less. There are extra steps involved with a Record, but they work the same iirc.