Javascript Data Types, Operators, and Their Confusion
=> indicates what the expression would evaluate to. Try it out in your console (in Chrome menu: View -> Developer -> Javascript Console)!
3–2 => 1
‘Hello’ + ‘, ‘ + `world!` => “Hello, world!”
‘High ‘ + 5 + ‘!’ => “High 5!”
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 => 15
‘1' + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 => ‘12345’
1 + ‘2’ + 3 + 4 + 5 => “12345”
1 + 2 + ‘3’ + 4 + 5 => “3345”
Why? When it reaches a string, it stops adding numbers and starts concatenating
1 + 2 + 3 + ‘4’ + 5 => “645”
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ‘5’ => “105”
typeof 42 => “number”
typeof 3.141592653589793 => “number”
typeof 5e-324 => “number”
typeof -Infinity => “number”
typeof ‘I am a string.’ => “string”
typeof ‘Me too!’ => “string”
typeof `Me three!`=> “string”
typeof ‘’ => “string”
typeof true => “boolean”
typeof false => “boolean”
typeof {} => “object”
let dogs = [‘Byron’, ‘Cubby’, ‘Boo Radley’, ‘Luca’];
typeof dogs => “object”
let dogs = [‘Byron’, ‘Cubby’, ‘Boo Radley’, ‘Luca’];
typeof dogs => “object”
typeof undefined => “undefined”
“Undefined” is a misnomer. Instead of ‘not defined,’ it actually means declared but not defined with a value.
let unassignedVariable;
typeof unassignedVariable => “undefined”
unassignedVariable = ‘’;
typeof unassignedVariable => “string”
true == 1 => true
false == 1 => false
false == 0 =>true
null == undefined =>true
‘’ == 0 =>true
’n’ == 1 =>false
‘1’ == 1 =>true
[] == ‘’ =>true
‘88’ > ‘9’ => false
Why? Strings are compared with other strings lexicographically, meaning character-by-character from left-to-right. Make sure that you tell JavaScript to convert the string to a number first, and then compare.
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