What does the “as” keyword do?

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That is not vanilla JavaScript, it is TypeScript. as any tells the compiler to consider the typed object as a plain untyped JavaScript object.

The as keyword is a Type Assertion in TypeScript which tells the compiler to consider the object as another type than the type the compiler infers the object to be.

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