JavaScript data types & conversion data types

Boolean: true and false.

null: A special keyword denoting a null value.

(Because JavaScript is case-sensitive, null is not the same as Nul, NULL, or any other variant.)

undefined: A top-level property whose value is not defined.

Number: An integer or floating-point number.

For example 42 or 3.14159.

BigInt: An integer with arbitrary precision.

For example: 90071992547 40992n.

String: A sequence of characters that represent a text value. For example: “Howdy”

Symbol: A data type whose instances are

unique and immutable.

…and Object.

JavaScript is a dynamically typed language.

This means you don’t have to specify the data type of a variable when you declare it.

It also means that data types are automatically converted as-needed during script execution.

For example, a variable is defined as Number:

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var answer =42;

Later, the same variable can be assigned a string value, for example:

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answer = ‘Thanks for all the love … ‘;

Expressions involving numeric and string values with the +operator, JavaScript converts numeric values to strings.

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X = ‘The answer is ‘ + 42 / / “The answer is 42”

y = 42 + ‘ is the answer’ / / “42 is the answer”

With all other operators, JavaScript does not convert numeric values to strings.

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X =’37’ -7; / / 30

y = ’37’ + 7; // “377”