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N Cee Dee
N Cee Dee

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Variable explanation help:

You can help me explain some of this words just in variables.

-> Concatenation
-> conversion
-> Coercion
-> Truthy and Falsy .

and give me some examples too...
Note: This words are under variables types in javascript

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Keff

Concatenation:

const name = 'bob';
const lastName = 'sprinklebutt';

const fullName = name + ' ' + lastName; // Here, name is contatenated with lastName to create a new string
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Conversion:

const numString = '1234';
const num = Number(numString); // Convert string to a number
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Coercion:

const stringNumber = '12';
const num = 12;
const coerced = stringNumber + num; // Results in "1212"
true == 1; // true
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Type coercion is the process of converting value from one type to another (such as string to number, object to boolean, and so on). Any type, be it primitive or an object, is a valid subject for type coercion.
Exerpt from freecodecamp.org/news/js-type-coer...

Truthy and Falsy:
This is a weird one in JS

true == 'true' // true
true == 'false' // true
true == 1 // true
1 == 1 // true
1 == '1' // true
1 == '2' // false
[] == false // true
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Keff

Hope it's useful

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N Cee Dee

thanks man for this,
i really appreciate.

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Andrew Baisden

This is a great explanation right here.

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N Cee Dee

thanks for this,
very simple to understand

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N Cee Dee

wow,
thanks for this

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N Cee Dee

Thanks for this..

i really appreciate

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Somtochukwu Nnaji • Edited

Coercion happens when you try to join two different values (values like string and Number) together e.g
When you something like this

let age = 12;
let myName = "dovey";
const result=age + myName;
console.log(result)

the result would be 12dovey javascript engine noticed that they both are not of the same value and can not be joined together to get an appropriate mean so it had to coerced i.e forcefully joining them together to get a result.