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What is the difference between interface and type?
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Both describe object shapes. interface is extendable and supports declaration merging — ideal for public/object APIs. type is more flexible: it can alias unions, intersections, primitives, tuples, and mapped types. Use interface for objects you may extend, type for unions and computed types.
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