Why use any everywhere?

[aldamai]

Ran into a stupid mistake, I set the user as follow:

      setUser({
        id: userPermissions.username,
        roles: [userPermissions.role],
        permissions: [userPermissions.permissions],
      });

correct way:

      setUser({
        id: userPermissions.username,
        roles: [userPermissions.role],
        permissions: userPermissions.permissions,
      });

The issue was that userPermissions.permissions was already an array of strings, so I unintentionally wrapped it in another array. It took me a while to debug and realize the data type was incorrect, but I didn't get any warnings or errors to help catch this mistake.

Is there a way to use generics or another approach to prevent this type of mistake in the future?