In the previous chapter, we installed Flow so that we could add data types check to JS, but we didn't really get into its syntax or rules. Let's get into that now, before getting into JS-specific features.
Adding types
Getting started
Flow will not check every file unless you expressly require it to. For a file to be checked, you must add a simple comment to the very top, as shown in the following code snippet. Flow will ignore any files that lack this comment, so even if you were adding the tool to an already existing project, you could do it gradually, adding files one at a time:
/* @flow */
Starting with Flow's controls, you just have to specify what data type you expect any variable to be, and Flow will...