Primitive data types recap
Let's quickly summarize some of the main points discussed so far:
- There are five primitive data types in JavaScript:
- Number
- String
- Boolean
- Undefined
- Null
- Everything that is not a primitive data type is an object
- The primitive number data type can store positive and negative integers or floats, hexadecimal numbers, octal numbers, exponents, and the special numbers
NaN
,Infinity
, and–Infinity
- The string data type contains characters in quotes
- The only values of the Boolean data type are
true
andfalse
- The only value of the null data type is the value
null
- The only value of the undefined data type is the value
undefined
- All values become
true
when converted to a Boolean, with the exception of the six falsy values:""
null
undefined
0
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