Stefan Baumgartner 11/20/2020

Tidy TypeScript: Prefer type aliases over interfaces

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This opinionated article compares TypeScript's type aliases and interfaces, highlighting their near-identical functionality. It argues that type aliases are preferable because they prevent 'declaration merging', a feature of interfaces that can accidentally cause global type conflicts and runtime errors, as demonstrated with the 'FormData' example.

Tidy TypeScript: Prefer type aliases over interfaces

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