Today we’re excited to announce the release of TypeScript 4.2! For those who aren’t familiar with TypeScript, it’s an extension to JavaScript that adds static types and type-checking. With types, you can state exactly what your functions take, and what they’ll return. You can then use the TypeScript type-checker to catch lots of common mistakes like typos, forgetting to handle null and undefined,
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