Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Data types in JavaScript

As in any other programming language, JavaScript also has Primitive data types and non-primitive data types. In case you didn't know primitive data types are predefined data types which comes with the language. Non-primitive are data types which are defined by the programmer.

Data types in JavaScript
  • Primary data types
    • Number
    • String
    • Boolean
  • Composite data types
    • Object
    • Function
JavaScript consists of lot of objects in it. Following diagram shows some of them. (source)

Array
Array is a high-level, list like object. Array prototype includes methods to perform operation on it.

Array. forEach
Array.prototype.map()
Creates a new array after manipulating the array elements from the callback function which is passed to map.
There are lot of other methods available for use in Array.prototype
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