Syntax Trap #001

Hey there 👋

I've spent a lot of time learning the details of JavaScript and stumbled across lots of surprising gotchas that only became clear after understanding what's going on under the hood.

I plan to post one of these each day (or so) and would love to get discussions around the specific "problems".

Here's the first: What's the result?

const num = '5';
console.log("5" * 4 + num);

1. Error
2. 25
3. 205
4. 55555

Easy, right :)
.. said some of my coworkers, before getting it wrong 🤓