Type Assertions & Type Casting | Typescript Tutorial for Beginners

Web Dev Roadmap for Beginners (Free!): https://bit.ly/DaveGrayWebDevRoadmap Learn Type Assertions & Type Casting in this Typescript tutorial for beginners. Learn more about type assertions and type casting and complete a Typescript student challenge in detailed TS tutorial. 🚀 Become a full-stack web dev with Zero To Mastery Courses: - The Complete Web Developer: https://bit.ly/WebDevMaster - Master the Coding Interview: https://bit.ly/FAANGInterview - Junior to Senior Dev Roadmap: https://bit.ly/WebDevRoadmap-JrtoSr 🚩 Subscribe ➜ https://bit.ly/3nGHmNn 📬 Course Updates ➜ https://courses.davegray.codes/ ❓ Questions - Please post them to my Discord ➜ https://discord.gg/neKghyefqh ☕ Buy Me A Coffee ➜ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/davegray 👇 Follow Me On Social Media: Github: https://github.com/gitdagray Twitter: https://twitter.com/yesdavidgray LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidagray/ 🔗 All Resources for this Typescript Course: https://github.com/gitdagray/typescript-course 🔗 Playlist for this Typescript Course: http://bit.ly/3GcNJ78 Type Assertions & Type Casting | Typescript Tutorial for Beginners (00:00) Intro (00:05) Welcome (00:28) Type Assertions vs Type Casting (01:18) What are Type Assertions? (01:58) Starter Code (03:44) Converting Types with Assertions (04:53) Angle Bracket Syntax instead of "as" (05:55) Narrowing Return Values with Assertions (08:37) Caution: Assertions allow mistakes! (10:07) Double Casting and the unknown type (12:03) DOM Selection Types (16:19) Non-Null Assertions (17:43) Angle Brackets and the DOM (18:14) Student Challenge (21:27) Solution 1: Beginners (24:13) Solution 2: Type Assertion Corrections: (13:50) Syntax error: document.getElementById('img') is what is needed if the element has an id set to "img". This does not change the concept I'm discussing. Just tired eyes and a syntax error. 📚 Suggested Pre-requisites for this Typescript course: 🔗JavaScript for Beginners full course: https://youtu.be/EfAl9bwzVZk 📚 Tutorial References: 🔗 Typescript Official Website: https://www.typescriptlang.org/ 🔗 Anders Hejlsberg, Creator of Typescript and C# Interview: https://dev.to/destrodevshow/typescript-and-c-both-created-by-the-same-person-named-anders-hejlsberg-42g4 🔗 Stackoverflow Survey Results: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#technology-most-popular-technologies 🔗 MDN - Static Typing: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Static_typing 🔗 MDN - Dynamic Typing: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Dynamic_typing 🔗 MDN - Type Coercion: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Type_coercion 🔗 TS Type Assertions: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/2/everyday-types.html#type-assertions ⚙ Web Dev Tools: 🔗 Chrome Browser: https://www.google.com/chrome/ 🔗 Visual Studio Code (VS Code): https://code.visualstudio.com/ 🔗 Node.js & npm: https://nodejs.org/ 🔗 Live Server VS Code Extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ritwickdey.LiveServer Was this Typescript Assertions and Type Casting tutorial helpful? If so, please share. Let me know your thoughts in the comments. #typescript #assertions #casting