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Modern Front-End Development for Rails, 2nd Edition
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Modern Front-End Development for Rails, 2nd Edition

by Noel Rappin
September 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
410 pages
10h 7m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Specifying Types with Literal Types

TypeScript lets you limit the values a string or number variable can have to a set of specific literal values. This literal type is not exactly a pure enumeration type, but you can think of it as basically an enumeration type because the behavior is almost identical.

Why would we want to limit the values of a variable? In many cases, we actually have a specific, defined list of values that can be sent to a variable and we’d like to have TypeScript insist on it. For example, in our concert app, tickets have one of five specific states: unsold, held, purchased, refunded, or invalid. On the Rails side, those values are protected with an ActiveRecord and Postgres enum, but we don’t have anything like that on the ...

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