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🙌 Way to go! We’ve learned a variety of ways to create types that are as specific as we need with unions. To recap, we’ve learned:
- We can combine two types with a vertical bar character
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. This is the syntax for defining a union. Each type in a union is called a type member. - We can narrow down what methods and properties are available in a program with type narrowing. Type narrowing allows us to type a variable as a union, then narrow down the union with a type guard to call type member specific methods and properties.
- If a function can return multiple types, TypeScript will infer all possible return types as a union.
- We can use unions to allow arrays to have multiple types of values.
- To call a method or property on a variable typed as a union, we can only call methods or properties that are identical on all members of the union.
- We can define states within our program by using literal types and unions.
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