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title: "Local Type Inference for Flow"
short-title: "Local Type Inference"
author: "Sam Zhou"
medium-link: "https://medium.com/flow-type/local-type-inference-for-flow-aaa65d071347"
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Local Type Inference makes Flow’s inference behavior more reliable and predictable, by modestly increasing Flow’s annotation requirement, bringing it closer to industry standard and capitalizing on increasingly strongly and explicitly typed codebases.
