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Using Generics in Function

Explore how to apply generics in TypeScript functions by creating an identity function that can handle multiple types safely. Understand challenges with JSX syntax parsing and learn practical solutions to use generics effectively in React projects.

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Identity function

It’s a bit more common to see generics used with functions. Let’s consider an identity functionIdentity function is a function that always return the same value we passed it as parameter. that takes a value and returns it. We’re pretty clear at this point that we don’t want to do something like this:

const identity = (x: string): string => {
  return x;
};
Identity function

Using generics for the

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