Is This a Type Guard?

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Wes: This is, y honestly, my first time seeing this as a strategy. I've just never had to reach for this but i think this is really neat. You have all these ugly if checks, you can just sweep it into a singular function that does the check for you. When mixed with type rwing, the type of the t target object would be narrow to the specified type. So you're basically saying, inside of the constructor, this is type. It's so funny goes inside a constructor, correct? Ok, ok, that makes sense if it's, if it's being bound to that interesting,. especially if it's like being extended sea me and o o

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about TypeScript Fundamentals, including narrowing, discriminating unions, and type guards.

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