How to convert BigInt to Number in JavaScript?

Question

I found myself in the situation where I wanted to convert a BigInt value to a Number value. Knowing that my value is a safe integer, how can I convert it?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53970655/how-to-convert-bigint-to-number-in-javascript

Answer 1

Turns out it's as easy as passing it to the Number constructor:

const myBigInt = BigInt(10);  // of course, `10n` also works
const myNumber = Number(myBigInt);