TypeScript 3.4+

With this new syntax, we get this nice concise solution:

const furniture = ['chair', 'table', 'lamp'] as const;
type Furniture = typeof furniture[number];

More about the new const contexts is found in this PR as well as in the release notes.

TypeScript 3.0+

With the use of generic rest parameters, there is a way to correctly infer string[] as a literal tuple type and then get the union type of the literals.

It goes like this:

const tuple = <T extends string[]>(...args: T) => args;
const furniture = tuple('chair', 'table', 'lamp');
type Furniture = typeof furniture[number];

More about generic rest parameters

The method array.toString() actually calls array.join() which result in a string concatenated by commas. ref

var array = ['a','b','c','d','e','f'];
document.write(array.toString()); // "a,b,c,d,e,f"

Also, you can implicitly call Array.toString() by making javascript coerce the Array to an string, like:

//will implicitly call array.toString()
str = ""+array;
str = `${array}`;

Array.prototype.join()

The join() method joins all elements of an array into a string.

Arguments:

It accepts a separator as argument, but the default is already a comma ,

str = arr.join([separator = ','])

Examples:

var array = ['A', 'B', 'C'];
var myVar1 = array.join();      // 'A,B,C'
var myVar2 = array.join(', ');  // 'A, B, C'
var myVar3 = array.join(' + '); // 'A + B + C'
var myVar4 = array.join('');    // 'ABC'

Note:

If any element of the array is undefined or null , it is treated as an empty string.

Browser support:

It is available pretty much everywhere today, since IE 5.5 (1999~2000).

References

• ECMA Specification
• Mozilla
• MSDN