Is Javascript a Statically Typed or a Dynamically Typed Language #5

This is the 5th question of the front-end interview questions series.

Dynamically-typed languages are those (like JavaScript) where the interpreter assigns variables a type at runtime based on the variable’s value at the time. —MDN

JavaScript is a dynamically-typed language, Meaning data types of variables are determined by the value they hold at runtime and can change throughout the program as we assign different values to them.

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let a = 12; // type of the a is number
console.log(a); // Output: 12

a = "justCodingThings.com"; // no errors
console.log(a); // Output: justCodingThings.com

a = { name: "Rohan", age: 14 };
console.log(a); // Output: { name: "Rohan", age: 14 }

If we talk about Typescript, it is a statically typed language, where the type of a variable is known at compile time. This means that before the source code is compiled, the type associated with each variable must be known.

let a: number = 23;

a = "justcodingThings.com"; // Error: Type 'string' is not assignable to type 'number'.

Whether we define the data type of the a variable explicitly or not, the type of variable will be number because of Type inference ( only works when the initial value clearly indicates the type) in Typescript. we can not assign string to the variable which has number type.

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