> it's implicitly typed by typescript automatically

What do you mean by this? Can you share an example?

Regular expressions do not act as type guards, and there's no way to express a type that allows one regular expression but rejects another (they're all just `RegExp`): https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?target=5#code/MYewdgzgL...

You wouldn't use `test()` like in your example.

`test()` only returns a boolean, you want to look at `exec()` which returns the result of the regular expression (typed as: `RegExpExecArray | null` which you can narrow down to `RegExpExecArray` by checking if the result is null or not).

RegExpExecArray gives you a structure that looks different between the jsdoc version and the typescript version.

The typescript version has `.groups` inside RegExpExecArray.

You can use that as is, or you can add some extra type utilities to extract the named groups from inside the regex. (If you look inside typescript's issues on github you'll find a whole bunch of them that people have wanted typescript to include by default).

There's a few regex PRs to add extraction and syntax checking to typescript by default, but they're delayed until after the compiler switch from ts to go. (but there's porting to go in the PRs anyway).