Explain narrowing and user-defined guards.
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What is type narrowing and what are type guards?
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Narrowing is how TS refines a broad type to a specific one within a branch using typeof, instanceof, in, or equality checks. A user-defined type guard is a function returning x is Type, telling the compiler the narrowed type when it returns true.
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