Today we are excited to announce the availability of TypeScript 4.9! If you’re not familiar with TypeScript, it’s a language that builds on JavaScript by adding types and type-checking. Types can describe things like the shapes of our objects, how functions can be called, and whether a property can be null or undefined. TypeScript can check these types to make sure we’re not making mistakes in our
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