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What are the primitive types in TypeScript?

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TypeScript has a type for each of JavaScript's seven primitives, the values that are not objects:

  • string for text.
  • number for numeric values, integers and floats alike.
  • boolean for true and false.
  • null for an intentional absence of a value.
  • undefined for a value that was never assigned.
  • symbol for unique identifiers.
  • bigint for integers too large for number.

TypeScript also adds special types that are not primitives. void marks a function that returns nothing, and never marks a value that never occurs. any turns off type checking, and unknown is its type-safe alternative.

Write the lowercase names, because String and Number refer to wrapper objects.

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