diff --git a/packages/hoppscotch-backend/src/pubsub/pubsub.service.ts b/packages/hoppscotch-backend/src/pubsub/pubsub.service.ts
index 854ef2e92..ba86342e1 100644
--- a/packages/hoppscotch-backend/src/pubsub/pubsub.service.ts
+++ b/packages/hoppscotch-backend/src/pubsub/pubsub.service.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { default as Redis, RedisOptions } from 'ioredis';
 
 import { RedisPubSub } from 'graphql-redis-subscriptions';
 import { PubSub as LocalPubSub } from 'graphql-subscriptions';
-import { MessageType } from './subscriptionTopicsDefs';
+import { TopicDef } from './subscriptionTopicsDefs';
 
 /**
  * RedisPubSub uses JSON parsing for back and forth conversion, which loses Date objects, hence this reviver brings them back
@@ -71,10 +71,7 @@ export class PubSubService implements OnModuleInit {
     return this.pubsub.asyncIterator(topic, options);
   }
 
-  async publish<T extends keyof MessageType>(
-    topic: T,
-    payload: MessageType[T],
-  ) {
+  async publish<T extends keyof TopicDef>(topic: T, payload: TopicDef[T]) {
     await this.pubsub.publish(topic, payload);
   }
 }
diff --git a/packages/hoppscotch-backend/src/pubsub/subscriptionTopicsDefs.ts b/packages/hoppscotch-backend/src/pubsub/subscriptionTopicsDefs.ts
index c860d55a4..4a1fbcb27 100644
--- a/packages/hoppscotch-backend/src/pubsub/subscriptionTopicsDefs.ts
+++ b/packages/hoppscotch-backend/src/pubsub/subscriptionTopicsDefs.ts
@@ -1,14 +1,10 @@
 import { UserEnvironment } from '../user-environment/user-environments.model';
-import { PrimitiveTypes } from '../types/primitiveTypes';
 
 // A custom message type that defines the topic and the corresponding payload.
 // For every module that publishes a subscription add its type def and the possible subscription type.
-export type MessageType = {
+export type TopicDef = {
   [
-    topic: `user_environment/${string}/${
-      | 'created'
-      | 'updated'
-      | 'deleted'
-      | 'deleted_many'}`
-  ]: UserEnvironment | PrimitiveTypes; // Returning a number hence having a union with `PrimitiveTypes`.
+    topic: `user_environment/${string}/${'created' | 'updated' | 'deleted'}`
+  ]: UserEnvironment;
+  [topic: `user_environment/${string}/deleted_many`]: number;
 };