JavaScript and Number Serialization
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7 min readFeb 23, 2023
Imagine I am writing a simple JavaScript/TypeScript application.
It needs to write a number into a file, and I intend for everyone else to read that numeral later on.
Does it sound complicated to you?
Can I just cast that primitive into a string and write it into the file?
The correct answer is: it is not that trivial.
I will explain in this article how to serialize numbers in JavaScript and TypeScript projects.