Instruction: Provide an example of a class declaration, including properties and methods.
Context: This question evaluates the candidate's understanding of object-oriented programming concepts within TypeScript, including class syntax.
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To declare a class in TypeScript, you start with the class keyword, followed by the class name. The naming convention typically follows PascalCase, which is an industry standard for class names. Within the class body, you can define properties (variables) and methods (functions) that belong to the class. Properties can have access modifiers such as public, private, or protected which determine how and where those properties can be accessed from.
For instance, let's consider we're building a frontend application and need a class to represent a User in our system. Here's how I would declare such a class in TypeScript, incorporating both properties and methods to illustrate:...