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Parse, Don't Validate: Making Bad Input Impossible in TypeScript
Stop checking the same field in fifteen places. Parse untrusted input once at the boundary into a type that can't be invalid — validation forgets what it learned, parsing keeps the proof in the type — and every downstream check disappears.
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Errors Are Values: Functional Error Handling in TypeScript
Stop throwing, start returning. Model failure as a value with Result, compose fallible steps on a railway, make illegal states unrepresentable, and let TypeScript force you to handle every error — no try/catch required.
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Booleans Lie: Modeling State with Discriminated Unions in TypeScript
Three booleans give you eight states when you only meant four. Discriminated unions make the illegal ones unrepresentable — model a value as exactly one of a fixed set of shapes and let TypeScript hold you to it.
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Six Functional Patterns to Stop Writing Java in JavaScript
Six concrete moves that turn functional thinking into TypeScript you can ship on Monday — pipelines over loops, expressions over statements, immutable updates, higher-order functions, composition, and closures over classes — refactored on a real orders view.