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title: 'You can use generic class-string annotations to hint that an instance of the passed class is returned'
tweet_id: '1479467944581033986'
thread_slug: weekly-thread-2021-01
author_username: freekmurze
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created_at: 2022-01-07T15:00:19+00:00
slug: you-can-use-generic-class-string-annotations-to-hint-that-an-instance-of-the-passed-class-is-returned
---
This is how you can hint that a function returns an instance of the class of which you passed the class name.

Cool stuff!

Hat tip to @enunomaduro 

https://github.com/spatie/laravel-route-discovery/blob/7fa88922aa693b03b4763eda870867075ab44999/src/PendingRoutes/PendingRouteAction.php#L100-L107