Understanding TypeScript’s Type System

TypeScript is on the rise—and its type system is a big reason for that

Lukonde Mwila
Better Programming
Published in
7 min readMay 31, 2019

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When I think about the upward trajectory of TypeScript’s adoption, I see that as more teams and developers choosing robustness over flexibility. The latter is what a dynamically typed language like JavaScript gives you, whereas TypeScript allows you to leverage static type checking

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