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Carlos Santana Roldán
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Carlos Santana Roldán is a senior web developer with more than 15 years of experience. Currently, he is working as a Principal Engineer at APM Music. He is the founder of JS Education, where he teaches people web technologies such as React, Node.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
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Template literals

In TypeScript, template literals are based on string literal types and can be expanded into multiple strings using unions. These types are useful for defining a theme name, for instance:

type Theme = 'light' | 'dark' 

Theme is a union type that can only be assigned one of the two string literal types: 'light' or 'dark'. This provides type safety and prevents runtime errors caused by passing an invalid value as the theme name.

Using this approach, you can define a set of possible values for a variable, argument, or parameter and ensure that only valid values are used at compile time. This makes your code more reliable and easier to maintain.

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Author (1)

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Carlos Santana Roldán

Carlos Santana Roldán is a senior web developer with more than 15 years of experience. Currently, he is working as a Principal Engineer at APM Music. He is the founder of JS Education, where he teaches people web technologies such as React, Node.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
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