Summary

In this chapter, you learned a lot about the basic building blocks of a JavaScript program. Now you know the primitive data types:

  • Number
  • String
  • Boolean
  • Undefined
  • Null

You also know quite a few operators:

  • Arithmetic operators: +, -, *, /, and %
  • Increment operators: ++ and --
  • Assignment operators: =, +=, -=, *=, /=, and %=
  • Special operators: typeof and delete
  • Logical operators: &&, ||, and !
  • Comparison operators: ==, ===, !=, !==, <, >, >=, and <=
  • The ternary operator ?:

Then, you learned how to use arrays to store and access data, and finally you saw different ways to control the flow of your program—using conditions (if-else or switch) and loops (while, do-while, for, and for-in).

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