[Solved]-How to create a custom equality function with reselect and Typescript?-Reactjs

The following worked for me but I'm not sure if it's the best way.

import {
  createSelectorCreator,
  defaultMemoize,
} from 'reselect';

type IComment = { id: number };
type State = { comments: IComment[] };
type CompareFn = <T>(a: T, b: T, index: number) => boolean;
const createCustomEqualSelector = (equalFn: CompareFn) =>
  createSelectorCreator(defaultMemoize, equalFn);
const selectComments = (state: State) => state.comments;
const commentsEqualFn: CompareFn = (a, b, index) =>
  //need to cast it or get an error:
  //  Property 'length' does not exist on type 'T'
  ((a as unknown) as IComment[]).length ===
  ((b as unknown) as IComment[]).length;

export const selectEmailsFromComments = createCustomEqualSelector(
  commentsEqualFn
)(
  selectComments, // returns an array of comments
  (comments) => {
    console.log('calculating comments:', comments);
    return comments;
  }
);
selectEmailsFromComments({ comments: [{ id: 1 }] })
//this will log previous value because array length didn't change
console.log('memoized', selectEmailsFromComments({ comments: [{ id: 2 }] }))