Strings are one of the key data types in JavaScript: anything that has text as a value (or is interpreted as text) is a string. Strings are common in forms, but are encountered when dealing with any kind of text information: the name of a class, for example, is a string, as is the content of a text node.

As such, manipulating and changing strings is very common in JavaScript. This reading list is a starting point for the most common methods for strings, although there are may more methods than those shown here, and the reading list will grow over time.

Prerequisites: Operands and Operators

Time: 40 minutes

1. Strings
2. Uppercase, lowercase & capitalisation
3. Concatenation
4. Template Literals
5. split & slice
6. trim

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