Learn React with TypeScript 3

Overload signatures

Overload signatures allow a function to be called with different signatures. This feature can be used nicely to streamline a set of functions that a library offers to consumers. Wouldn't it be nice for a library that contained condenseString public functions and condenseArray to be streamlined so that it just contained a single public condense function? We'll do just this in this section:

1. We have a function that removes spaces from a string:

function condenseString(string: string): string {  return string.split(" ").join("");}

2. We have another function that removes spaces from array items:

function condenseArray(array: string[]): string[] {  return array.map(item => item.split(" ").join(""));}

3. We now want to combine ...