🤯 JavaScript Type Coercion Explained: Avoid These 2024 Coding Surprises!

"Why does '5' + 3 = '53' but '5' - 3 = 2? 💻 In this eye-opening tutorial, uncover JavaScript's type coercion secrets – the hidden conversions that cause 60% of beginner bugs – and learn how to control them in your 2024 projects!

✅ What You'll Discover:

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// The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Coercion:

// 2024 Best Practices:
1. Strict Equality: '5' === 5 // false (safer than ==)
2. Explicit Conversion: Number('5') + 3 // 8
3. Optional Chaining: user?.age || 0 // fallback safety
💡 Why This Matters:

Debug Faster: Understand unexpected type conversions

Write Safer Code: Prevent form/API data mishandling

Nail Interviews: A favorite topic for technical screens

🛠 Modern Solutions:

TypeScript type guards

ESLint eqeqeq rule to ban ==

VS Code's type hinting

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🚀 Free Resources:

"Coercion Cheat Sheet" (Download below)

Challenge: Fix a buggy calculator suffering from coercion

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