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Hi, Phaser devs! I'm developing a game using Phaser with TypeScript and what I'm trying to achieve is this: var component:AwesomeComponent = actor.getComponent<AwesomeComponent>(); I know there's a workaround by constructing objects of type T. But I don't like it because I'd probably need to define tons of different constructors to represent all differents kinds of components. What I'm doing so far is passing a string with the type (of course a number would be better, but I'm still prototyping): getComponent<T>(componentType:string): T { for (let i = 0; i < this.components.length; i++) { if (componentType == this.components[i].componentType) { return <T><any>this.components[i]; } } return undefined; } It works, but the result is not good, you have to type the class name twice: var animComp = actor.getComponent<AnimationComponent>("AnimationComponent"); Any suggestions on how to solve it? I know there`s a way to do it, because Unity does exactly that in JavaScript. Thank you for your time!