By Matthew Garcia
There are times when you may want a function to be able to take different types of parameters. A little bit like union types in TypeScript. Let’s see how it can be done using Flow.
It’s just a matter of listing the possible types, delimited by a |:
The above example used Array.isArray
to determine the type of words
, but there are other ways Flow can do this:
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