Cross-platform Desktop Application Development: Electron, Node, NW.js, and React

Function type

We can set constraints on a function by using the function type literal:

const showModal: (toggle: boolean) => void =  
  function( toggle )  { 
    console.log( toggle ); 
  } 

I find it quite discouraging and prefer to use interface:

interface Switcher { 
  (toggle: boolean): void; 
} 
 
const showModal:Switcher = ( toggle ) => { 
  console.log( toggle ); 
} 
 
showModal( true ); 

You may now ask, what if the function has optional parameters? TypeScript makes it very simple to define an optional parameter. You just need to append the parameter with a question mark:

 function addOgTags(title: string, description?: string): string { return ` <meta property="og:title" content="${title}" /> <meta property="og:description" content="${description || ""}" ...