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Learning TypeScript 2.x - Second Edition
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Learning TypeScript 2.x - Second Edition

by Remo H. Jansen
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
536 pages
13h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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Function types

We already know that it is possible to explicitly declare the type of an element in our application by using optional type annotations:

function greetNamed(name: string): string { 
    return `Hi! ${name}`; 
} 

In the preceding function, we have specified the type of the parameter name (string) and its return type (string). Sometimes, we will need to not just specify the types of the function elements, but the function itself. Let's look at an example:

let greetUnnamed: (name: string) => string; 
 
greetUnnamed = function(name: string): string { 
    return `Hi! ${name}`; 
}; 

In the preceding example, we have declared the greetUnnamed variable and its type. The greetUnnamed type is a function type that takes a string variable called name ...

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