Ruphaa's Notes

How to convert a value into String in JS?

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Convert value to string

As you can see, there are completely different mechanisms for trying to convert a value into a string. So how do we choose?

  • when we want to convert null and undefined to a string, we often want it to return an empty string.
  • when we turn an array and a plain object into a string, we often want to use JSON.stringify.
  • If the object’s toString method is overridden, then we want to use String().
  • In other cases, String() is used to convert the value to a String.
function isPlainObject(obj) {
return Object.prototype.toString.call(obj) === "[object Object]";
}

function toString(val) {
if (val === null || val === undefined) return "";
if (Array.isArray(val)) return JSON.stringify(val);
if (isPlainObject(val) && val.toString === Object.prototype.toString)
return JSON.stringify(val); // other cases
return String(val);
}

Also to join the elements in an array, instead of using join(',') we can use String([1,2,3])