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The document discusses the JavaScript boolean type which has two literal values: true and false. It explains how to declare boolean variables and use the Boolean() function to cast non-boolean values to boolean. Some statements like if implicitly cast non-boolean values to boolean using this function, evaluating non-empty values as true and empty/undefined values as false.

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JavaScript Boolean Type

The document discusses the JavaScript boolean type which has two literal values: true and false. It explains how to declare boolean variables and use the Boolean() function to cast non-boolean values to boolean. Some statements like if implicitly cast non-boolean values to boolean using this function, evaluating non-empty values as true and empty/undefined values as false.

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Summary: in this tutorial, you’ll learn about the JavaScript boolean type that has two literal values
true and false .

Introduction to the JavaScript boolean type


The JavaScript boolean primitive type has two literal values: true and false .

The following example declares two variables (https://www.javascripttutorial.net/javascript-variables/) and


initializes their values to true and false :

let completed = true;

let running = false;

The boolean’s literal values are case-sensitive. This means that the True and False are valid
identifiers but they’re not boolean values.

JavaScript allows the values of other types to be cast to boolean values. To cast a non-Boolean value
to a boolean value, you use the built-in Boolean() (https://www.javascripttutorial.net/javascript-

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boolean-type/) function. For example:

let error = 'An error occurred';

let hasError = Boolean(error);

console.log(hasError);

Output:

true

How it works.

First, declare a variable error that holds a literal string 'An error occurred' .

Second, cast the error variable to a boolean value using the Boolean() function.

Third, output the value of the hasError variable to the console.

Because the error variable holds a non-empty string, the Boolean() function casts its value to
true .

The following table shows how the Boolean() function casts the values of other types to boolean
values:

Data Type Values converted to true Value Converted to false

string Any non-empty string “” (empty string)

number Any Non-zero number 0, NaN

object Any object null

undefined (not relevant) undefined

This table is important because some statements automatically cast a non-boolean value to a boolean
value using the Boolean() function.

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For example, the if (https://www.javascripttutorial.net/javascript-if/) statement executes a block if


a condition is true . If you use a non-boolean value, it’ll use the Boolean() function to implicitly
cast that value to a boolean value.

Note that you’ll learn about the if statement in the if tutorial


(https://www.javascripttutorial.net/javascript-if/) .

See the following example:

let error = 'An error occurred';

if (error) {

console.log(error);

Output:

An error occurred

In this example, since the error variable holds a non-empty string, the if statement evaluates its
value to true . Therefore, it executes the console.log(error) to output the error to the
console.

If you change the value of the error variable to an empty string ( "" ), you won’t see anything in
the output because the if statement evaluates it as false :

let error = '';

if (error) {

console.log(error);

Summary
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JavaScript boolean type has two literal values true and false .

Use the Boolean() function to cast a non-boolean values to a boolean value.

Some statements implicitly cast a non-boolean value into a boolean value.

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