Context: JavaScript data types

When it comes to programming, pretty much everything we do revolves around storing and manipulating data. This data always has a type associated with it that tells the computer exactly how to handle the data that it’s given. In JavaScript, the data’s type is automatically determined when the code is executed.

What exactly do we mean by this? Let’s take a look at an example.

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