Chapter 2. Understanding Data Types
THINGS ARE ABOUT TO GET REAL.
By the end of this chapter, youâll have a sense for the types of data youâll encounter during your JavaScript-writing travels. Some types of data will seem self-explanatory, at least on the surface: numbers are numbers, strings of text are strings of text. Some types of data will veer a little more toward the philosophical-sounding: true, as a keyword in JavaScript, represents the very essence of trueness.
Things go a bit deeper than that, however, and sometimes in particularly confusing ways. Numbers can be truthy or falsy, while text will always be truthy. NaNâa JavaScript ...
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