Discussion on: Understanding Generics in TypeScript

[Philip London]

Hey @iam_danieljohns that's perfectly valid JavaScript, in this case value will be cast to a string type because concatenating a number and a string results in a string. In this case value will be "123hello".

If you wanted to make sure that value was indeed a number type you could do:

let value: number = returnStringOrNumber<number>(123) + "hello"