TypeScript: Convert a bool to string value

For those looking for an alternative, another way to go about this is to use a template literal like the following:

const booleanVal = true;
const stringBoolean = `${booleanVal}`;

The real strength in this comes if you don't know for sure that you are getting a boolean value. Although in this question we know it is a boolean, thats not always the case, even in TypeScript(if not fully taken advantage of).

This is either a bug in TypeScript or a concious design decision, but you can work around it using:

var myBool: bool = true;
var myString: string = String(myBool);
alert(myString);

In JavaScript booleans override the toString method, which is available on any Object (pretty much everything in JavaScript inherits from Object), so...

var myString: string = myBool.toString();

... should probably be valid.

There is also another work around for this, but I personally find it a bit nasty:

var myBool: bool = true;
var myString: string = <string><any> myBool;
alert(myString);