Type assertions are not a substitute for non-null assertions
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Take JavaScript’s Map data structure — its get and has methods are defined like so in TypeScript:
get‘s return type of V | undefined can result in frustration when you know that the return value is not undefined — like when you’ve already checked for the key’s presence via has:
An easy fix for the error above is to assert that the return value is of type number via a type assertion:
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