7 practical examples of bitwise operation in JavaScript

pandaquests
Level Up Coding
Published in
6 min readDec 31, 2022

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BBitwise operation are a powerful tool for every programmer, because they allow you to manipulate individual bits within a value. This can be useful in a variety of contexts. For example, the operation is usually faster, but it comes with a trade off that it’s difficult to understand. So, it’s important to know how bitwise operation works in JavaScript. Also knowing bitwise operations should belong into every software developers’ skillset.

Often than not, the examples are quite “academic”, like masking a bit, setting, or clearing a bit…

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