The most famous feature that made TypeScript what it is, is the type system that enables us to leverage a static type checking at compile time. We have already seen the use of types in the previous code examples. It's important to understand that in TypeScript the use of types is optional but highly recommended. As we saw at the beginning of this chapter, the TypeScript compiler breakdown all the types declaration, so the compilation result will be plain JavaScript.
TypeScript supports all the basic JavaScript types you expected: Booleans, Numbers, Strings, and Arrays. The following example shows how to use it in code:
// strings let name: string = "bob"; // boolean let isLoggedIn: boolean = true; // number let height: number = 24; let width: number = 12; // arrays let colors: string[] = ['red', 'green', 'blue']; let colors: Array<string> = ['red', 'green', 'blue'];
TypeScript also includes extra three types to the mix, namely, enum, any, and void. The...