Transform Number into binary text

Question

How to achieve the representation of a Number (integer) in binary with Javascript?

Ex:

47 = 00101111

Answer 1

If you want it to work in a generic way, including negatives:

function dec2bin(dec) {
    return dec >= 0 ? dec.toString(2) : (~dec).toString(2);
}
console.log(dec2bin(47));
console.log(dec2bin(-47));

If you want to make a padding:

function dec2bin(dec) {
    var binario = dec >= 0 ? dec.toString(2) : (~dec).toString(2);
    var tamanho = binario.length > 32 ? 64 : binario.length > 16 ? 32 : binario.length > 8 ? 16 : 8;
    return ("0".repeat(tamanho) + binario).substr(-tamanho);
}
console.log(dec2bin(47));
console.log(dec2bin(-47));
console.log(dec2bin(12347));
console.log(dec2bin(5612347));

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Answer 2

As already mentioned you can use the .toString() and passing as an argument 2, which means base 2, Radix 2 or binary.

To complete the zeroes on the left just need one more line of code, something like this:

function binarificar(nr){
    var str = nr.toString(2);
    return '00000000'.slice(str.length) + str;
}

console.log(binarificar(1));  // 00000001
console.log(binarificar(47)); // 00101111

Answer 3

One option is this:

(47).toString(2)

The method toString, in Javascript, accepts on which basis you want to get the representation of the integer. In the above case was in base 2.