[1] JavaScript Data Types
In addition to my main studies, I constantly watch FrontendMasters courses. Those courses are mostly about JavaScript, HTML, CSS, web development in general and things like that. So in this post, I'll share some considerations about JavaScript data types.
Well, at first, there are some basic data types, like strings, numbers and booleans (true vs false):
console.log(typeof "Test")
→ string
console.log(typeof 8)
→ number
console.log(typeof true)
→ boolean
Then, in the following example, we can see the difference between undefined and undeclared variables. The difference is obvious enough, but at the same time, JavaScript takes both cases as undefined for some reason.
let x
console.log(typeof x)
→ undefined
console.log(typeof y)
→ undefined (hmm... undefined or maybe undeclared?)
Next, there is a group of quite different things such as an object, array and null that are in practice perceived equally.
let x = {}
console.log(typeof x)
→ object
let list = [1, 2, 3]
console.log(typeof list)
→ object (Array is also an object in JS)
I guess that the better way to differentiate regular objects from arrays is to use Array.isArray.
console.log(typeof null)
→ object (Wait... null is an object? 🧐 It seems to be so.)
There were a couple of completely new things to me as well, such as symbol and bigint. They are definitely not the things I used a lot, so I can't say anything special about them.
console.log(typeof Symbol("&"))
→ symbol
console.log(typeof 1n || BigInt(42))
→ bigint
Of course, there is also a function, which data type is a function. Yes, it was easy this time.
let w = (name) => { console.log(`Hi ${name}`) }
console.log(typeof w)
→ function
And finally, there are also several examples not directly related to JavaScript data types, but which seemed interesting to me.
console.log(Number("Test"))
→ NaN
let zero = -0
console.log(Object.is(zero, 0))
→ false
console.log(Object.is(zero, -0))
→ true
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