When you filter a mixed type array, the new typing is not passed to the new array. In the example below the returned type of the array is `(string | number | boolean)[]
const arr = [123, true, "I'm a string"];
// Normal filter
const normal = arr.filter((pred) => typeof pred === 'number');
// normal is `(string | number | boolean)[]`
With the User-Defined type guards (pred is number
) our filtered list is correctly typed to number[]
// Filter using User-Defined Type Guards
const withTypes = arr.filter((pred): pred is number => typeof pred === 'number');
// withTypes is `number[]`