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With that we're almost done with the Corps types.

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There is one more type which we already saw and that's the.

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Any type the any type is the most flexible type you can assign and typescript this type doesn't tell

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typescript anything.

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It basically means you can store any kind of value in there.

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We got no specific type assignment typescript will basically never yell at you when you use any back

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in our code here if I would set the type of favorite activities to any would not get an error if I said

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it to any array.

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I at least tell typescript that favorite activities is an array of something.

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So if it would store just a single value in there I would get an error.

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But as long as it is an array I can store whatever I want in there.

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So any is really flexible and this can sound great at first but actually it's a big disadvantage and

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you absolutely want to a white any whenever possible because any takes away basically all advantages

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typescript gives you it gives you the same experience you have with vanilla javascript where you also

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have to any type on everything so to say any basically make sure that the typescript compiler can't

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check anything because if any property or any variable can store any value well then there's not much

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to check right.

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So you can use any as a fallback if you have some value some kind of data where you really can't know

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which kind of data will be stored in there and where you then maybe are using some runtime checks like

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we did here at runtime to narrow down what you want to do for certain values then you could go with

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any.

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But in other cases you really won a wide any if you have a chance of knowing which kind of data you're

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working with.

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Be explicit about it.

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Let us type scripts inference do its job or explicitly set your own types don't fall back to any if

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you don't need to.