PHP Magic Methods to TypeScript Proxy: 5 Idioms That Translate

Book: PHP to TypeScript — A Bridge for Modern PHP 8+ Developers Also by me: The TypeScript Library — the 5-book collection My project: Hermes IDE | GitHub — an IDE for developers who ship with Claude Code and other AI coding tools Me: xgabriel.com | GitHub A PHP developer opens a TypeScript codebase, scrolls to the ORM layer, and gets stuck on a familiar question: how does $user->name work in TypeScript when the property does not exist on the class? In PHP, the answer is one of the magic methods