Status Updates From JavaScript: The Definitive ...

Object destructuring in detail, looked up but didn’t find an answer to how object destructuring works in TS when using an alias. Niche question for sure, but important

Glossed over object to primitive conversions going over: prefer-string algorithms, prefer-number algorithms, and no-preference algorithms. Apparently prefer-number is used more than a majority of the time when there is no-preference except for in the case of date objects which use prefer-string

Learned some things about text and that some characters are two sixteen bit values, such that a string with a heart would have a length of two whereas a string with the euro character is just a sixteen bit character. Also learned about some string normalization methods that I’d like to play with as well as a quick intro to Symbols which I need to dive deeper I to. There was also some good advice on when to use null

Relearned that strings are immutable in JS, learned about Unicode a bit and that you can include it in variable names but not to trust if it’s normalized, learned about different bases 0o octet 0b binary 0x hexadecimal, and about the BigInt object introduced in 2020 to handle base 64 numbers.

Got through the intro, trying to read cover to cover by the end of January.

Giving the 2020 edition a good old read