To avoid using "any" type is a best pratice. The reason for that is it disable the power of typescirpt to helping check you during the compile time. For example:
currency(num: number){ cosnole.log(num.toFixed(2)); }
In our currency function, it should accept a number not a string, because toFixed is a method for number type.
In typescript, it will tell you, if the type is not number, but string, it will report error:
If you cannot sure it is a string or number type, you can use unit type:
currency(num: string|number){ if(typeof num === "number"){ cosnole.log(num.toFixed(2)); }else{ console.log(parseFloat(num).toFixed(2)); } }