In this article, I'm advocating to use enums in a way that makes the discussion of numeric vs string enums no longer relevant. If you use your enums symbolically, then you will never have issues

Yazan Alaboudi

Here's the issue that plagues only numeric enums, and not string enums:

enum Animal {
  Lion,
  Tiger,
}

const justANumber: number = 5;

// No type error
const myAnimal: Animal = justANumber;

Typescript made this historical error at some point and never tried to remedy it, let's say, by introducing a config such as strictNumericEnums: boolean.