Formatting a number with exactly two decimals in JavaScript

Question

I have this line of code which rounds my numbers to two decimal places. But I get numbers like this: 10.8, 2.4, etc. These are not my idea of two decimal places so how I can

Answer 1

Here's a TypeScript implementation of https://stackoverflow.com/a/21323330/916734. It also dries things up with functions, and allows for a optional digit offset.

export function round(rawValue: number | string, precision = 0, fractionDigitOffset = 0): number | string {
  const value = Number(rawValue);
  if (isNaN(value)) return rawValue;

  precision = Number(precision);
  if (precision % 1 !== 0) return NaN;

  let [ stringValue, exponent ] = scientificNotationToParts(value);

  let shiftExponent = exponentForPrecision(exponent, precision, Shift.Right);
  const enlargedValue = toScientificNotation(stringValue, shiftExponent);
  const roundedValue = Math.round(enlargedValue);

  [ stringValue, exponent ] = scientificNotationToParts(roundedValue);
  const precisionWithOffset = precision + fractionDigitOffset;
  shiftExponent = exponentForPrecision(exponent, precisionWithOffset, Shift.Left);

  return toScientificNotation(stringValue, shiftExponent);
}

enum Shift {
  Left = -1,
  Right = 1,
}

function scientificNotationToParts(value: number): Array {
  const [ stringValue, exponent ] = value.toString().split('e');
  return [ stringValue, exponent ];
}

function exponentForPrecision(exponent: string, precision: number, shift: Shift): number {
  precision = shift * precision;
  return exponent ? (Number(exponent) + precision) : precision;
}

function toScientificNotation(value: string, exponent: number): number {
  return Number(`${value}e${exponent}`);
}