Variables and Type Annotations
Explore how to declare variables with type annotations in TypeScript to enforce data types and enhance error checking. Understand type inference limitations and learn to explicitly specify types to avoid common bugs and improve code reliability.
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TypeScript allows but does not require us to annotate our JavaScript code with information about the types of various pieces of data in the code. TypeScript uses this information as a constraint on the values that those pieces of data can contain. If we declare a variable to be a number and then assign it the string value "3", the TypeScript compiler will not allow the code to be compiled.
If we don’t add any explicit type information, however, we don’t get the full benefit of using TypeScript. ...