TypeScript Fundamentals × Narrowing, Discriminating Unions, and Type Guards
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
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🗓️ 9 May 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Monday. Monday. Monday. Open wide dev fans. Get ready to stuff your face with |
| 0:07.0 | JavaScript CSS. Node modules. Barbecue tips. Get workflow. Break dancing. Soft skills. |
| 0:12.0 | Web development. The hastiest. The craziest. The tastiest. Web development |
| 0:17.0 | treats. Coming in hot. Here is Wes Barakuda. Boss and Scott El Torro Lugo. |
| 0:24.0 | Tolinsky. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome to syntax on this Monday hasty treat. We are going to be talking about some |
| 0:35.0 | TypeScript fundamentals. We're going to be talking about what is called type |
| 0:39.0 | narrowing, discriminating unions and typeguards. Basically, we're going to be helping |
| 0:45.0 | you solve some of those errors that pop up in your TypeScript code that make you |
| 0:49.0 | very frustrated because you say, hey, this thing is supposed to be this thing. |
| 0:53.0 | Why is it giving me an error? My name is Scott Linsky. I'm a developer from Denver, |
| 0:56.0 | Colorado. And with me, as always, is Wes Boss. |
| 1:00.0 | Can you narrow? |
| 1:03.0 | Is that Simpsons? |
| 1:05.0 | I don't know. I've never heard that collection of words in that melody. |
| 1:10.0 | Can you narrow? There's another guy there. |
| 1:12.0 | Oh, can you narrow? Yes. Oh. Yeah. |
| 1:15.0 | Yeah, that kind of kind of says Simpsons to me. |
| 1:20.0 | Oh, that's a good one. Simpsons, I don't do very many Simpsons jokes, |
| 1:24.0 | but that one came out a left field. |
| 1:27.0 | It did. It did. Might be out of left field. |
| 1:29.0 | What didn't come out of left field, Wes, is our two sponsors today, |
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