December 2019
Beginner
464 pages
10h 31m
English
In This Chapter
• Get a deeper understanding of how primitives and objects work
• Understand that even primitives have object-like traits
• Wonder how JavaScript ever got to be so popular
In the earlier Strings chapter and less so in the Of Pizza, Types, Primitives, and Objects chapter, we got a sneak peek at something that is probably pretty confusing. I’ve stated many times that primitives are very plain and simple. Unlike Objects, they don’t contain properties that allow you to fiddle with their values in interesting (or boring) ways. Yet, as clearly demonstrated by all the stuff we can do with strings, our primitives seem to have a mysterious dark side to them:
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