tilnumeric string type

One of the most powerful recent features from TypeScript is template types. While they’re capable of everything from string manipulation to implementing generic parsers, sometimes it’s the simplest uses that are the most useful.

A type I’ve come to find very helpful is “numeric string”:

type NumericString = `${number}`

This type is a “subtype” of string, which means it can be used anywhere a string is expected, but not every string can be used where NumericString is expected.

This is particularly helpful in describing API payloads which include numeric strings instead of numbers to represent numeric values which need to be exact or support high precision (and avoid floating point rounding errors) such as currencies.