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If you want to create an object type with a fixed set of keys and values, you should use a Record. If you want to create an object type that can have any number of properties, but the values for those properties must have a specific type, you should use an index signature.

We can use the indexOf() method in TypeScript to get the index of the first occurrence of a specified sub-string in a given string. This method is also present in JavaScript, owing to the fact that JavaScript is a subset of TypeScript. Hence, they share similar methods.

Instead of the index signatures, we can use the Record utility type. It is generic and accepts two types: the type of the keys and the type of the values.

Index signature is used to represent the type of object/dictionary when the values of the object are of consistent types. Syntax: { [key: KeyType] : ValueType } Assume that we have a theme object which allows us to configure the color properties that can be used across the application.

In TypeScript, we have a concept called index signature which is represented by the syntax "{[key: any]: any}". We use it to specify the type of an object to which we might not know the "key" type, the "value" type or both in the "key-value" pair.

We can use the indexOf() method in TypeScript to get the index of the first occurrence of a specified sub-string in a given string. This method is also present in JavaScript, owing to the fact that JavaScript is a subset of TypeScript. Hence, they share similar methods.

The index signature can be used to define the type of object whose values are of consistent kinds or whose structure you do not know. The index signature is made up of the index name and types enclosed in square brackets and then followed by a colon and the value type: {[indexName: KeyType]: ValueType}.