Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Angular 6 and Laravel 5

The opt-out type checking - any

The any type is very useful when we do not know what to expect from a function (in other words, when we do not know which type we are going to return):

1. Create a new file called any.ts inside the chapter-02 folder, and add the following code:

let band: any;band = {    name: "Motorhead",    description: "Heavy metal band",    rate: 10}console.log(band);band = "Motorhead";console.log(band);

Note that the first band assignment is an object, while the second is a string.

2. Go back to your Terminal and compile and run this piece of code; type the following command:

tsc any.ts

3. Now, let's see the output. Type the following command:

node any.js

You will see the following message in the Terminal:

{ name: 'Motorhead', description: ...