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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