how to control if a value is a number in js code example

Example 1: javascript check if number

//Updated dec 2020
// The first 2 Variations return a Boolean
// They just work the opposite way around

// IsInteger
if (Number.isInteger(val)) {
	// It is indeed a number
}

// isNaN (is not a number)
if (isNaN(val)) {
	// It is not a number
}

// Another option is typeof which return a string
if (typeof(val) === 'number') {
	// Guess what, it's a bloody number!
}

Example 2: check if a variable is a number in javascript

// as test cases we have two variables of which 1 is a number and the second one is a string
let x = 7;
let y = "hello"
let result1 = !Number.isNaN(x) // true
let result2 = !Number.isNaN(y) // flase