> 1. Avoid Enums What? This is IMO bad advice. Having a sum type is quite handy for general type-checking, at least insofar as the type truly is an enumerated type (i.e. all possible values are known at design-time). There have been times when TypeScript enums have been indispensable to me when declaring the external interface to some client-facing API. Whatever the API boundary is, a sum type is useful. Also, TypeSc…
What are the advantages of enums over a string literal union? I can only see disadvantages.
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