Typescript: React event types

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The SyntheticEvent interface is generic:

interface SyntheticEvent<T> {
    ...
    currentTarget: EventTarget & T;
    ...
}

(Technically the currentTarget property is on the parent BaseSyntheticEvent type.)

And the currentTarget is an intersection of the generic constraint and EventTarget.
Also, since your events are caused by an input element you should use the ChangeEvent (in definition file, the react docs).

Should be:

update = (e: React.ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>): void => {
    this.props.login[e.currentTarget.name] = e.currentTarget.value
}

(Note: This answer originally suggested using React.FormEvent. The discussion in the comments is related to this suggestion, but React.ChangeEvent should be used as shown above.)

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