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TypeScript 5 Design Patterns and Best Practices - Second Edition
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TypeScript’s type inference is a powerful feature, but it can sometimes lead to unexpected results. Understanding these gotchas can help you write more robust and type-safe code. Let’s explore some common anti-patterns related to type inference and how to avoid them.
In TypeScript, you can declare types for variables or instances either explicitly or implicitly. Here is an example of explicit typing:
const arr: number[] = [1,2,3]
On the other hand, implicit typing is when you don’t declare the type of variable and let the compiler infer it:
const arr = [1,2,3]// type of arr inferred as number[]
If you declare and do not assign any value within the same line, then TypeScript will infer it as any:
let x; // fails with noImplicitAny flag enabled x = 2;
This will fail to compile with the noImplicitAny flag, so in this case, it’s recommended to always declare...