🛠️ Refactor: no casting Vue instances as any

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Motivation 🏁

It's bad practice to cast types as any just to circumvent TS compiler errors; that kind of defeats the purpose of type-checking if we disable its functionality every time we run into a problem. i read this article here:

https://v3.vuejs.org/guide/typescript-support.html#using-with-options-api

which talks about how the TS compiler has difficulty inferring types in the Vue framework. Explicitly specifying them with an interface is the preferred method of resolution.

Originally posted by @diracs-delta in #79 (comment)

Describe your refactoring solution 🛠️

• identify all instances of Vue instances being cast as any to circumvent TS compiler errors
• add strict checks to tsconfig.json that disable casts to any

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TS doesn't actually having a compiler option disabling explicit casts to any. we'll just have to wait until we implement ESlint

https://github.com/typescript-eslint/typescript-eslint/blob/master/packages/eslint-plugin/docs/rules/no-explicit-any.md