[javascript] What is the difference between parseInt(string) and Number(string) in JavaScript?

What is the difference between parseInt(string) and Number(string) in JavaScript?

parseInt(string) will convert a string containing non-numeric characters to a number, as long as the string begins with numeric characters

'10px' => 10

Number(string) will return NaN if the string contains any non-numeric characters

'10px' => NaN

The first one takes two parameters:

parseInt(string, radix)

The radix parameter is used to specify which numeral system to be used, for example, a radix of 16 (hexadecimal) indicates that the number in the string should be parsed from a hexadecimal number to a decimal number.

If the radix parameter is omitted, JavaScript assumes the following:

• If the string begins with "0x", the
  radix is 16 (hexadecimal)
• If the string begins with "0", the radix is 8 (octal). This feature
  is deprecated
• If the string begins with any other value, the radix is 10 (decimal)

The other function you mentioned takes only one parameter:

Number(object)

The Number() function converts the object argument to a number that represents the object's value.

If the value cannot be converted to a legal number, NaN is returned.

Addendum to @sjngm's answer:

They both also ignore whitespace:

var foo = " 3 "; console.log(parseInt(foo)); // 3 console.log(Number(foo)); // 3

It is not exactly correct. As sjngm wrote parseInt parses string to first number. It is true. But the problem is when you want to parse number separated with whitespace ie. "12 345". In that case
parseInt("12 345") will return 12 instead of 12345. So to avoid that situation you must trim whitespaces before parsing to number. My solution would be:

     var number=parseInt("12 345".replace(/\s+/g, ''),10);

Notice one extra thing I used in parseInt() function. parseInt("string",10) will set the number to decimal format. If you would parse string like "08" you would get 0 because 8 is not a octal number.Explanation is here

The parseInt function allows you to specify a radix for the input string and is limited to integer values.

parseInt('Z', 36) === 35

The Number constructor called as a function will parse the string with a grammar and is limited to base 10 and base 16.

StringNumericLiteral :::
    StrWhiteSpaceopt 
    StrWhiteSpaceopt StrNumericLiteral StrWhiteSpaceopt

StrWhiteSpace :::
    StrWhiteSpaceChar StrWhiteSpaceopt

StrWhiteSpaceChar :::
    WhiteSpace 
    LineTerminator

StrNumericLiteral :::
    StrDecimalLiteral 
    HexIntegerLiteral

StrDecimalLiteral :::
    StrUnsignedDecimalLiteral 
    + StrUnsignedDecimalLiteral 
    - StrUnsignedDecimalLiteral

StrUnsignedDecimalLiteral :::
    Infinity 
    DecimalDigits . DecimalDigitsopt ExponentPartopt 
    . DecimalDigits ExponentPartopt     
    DecimalDigits ExponentPartopt

DecimalDigits :::
    DecimalDigit 
    DecimalDigits DecimalDigit

DecimalDigit ::: one of
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

ExponentPart :::
    ExponentIndicator SignedInteger

ExponentIndicator ::: one of
    e E

SignedInteger :::
    DecimalDigits 
    + DecimalDigits 
    - DecimalDigits

HexIntegerLiteral :::
    0x HexDigit 
    0X HexDigit 
    HexIntegerLiteral HexDigit

HexDigit ::: one of
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f A B C D E F

Addendum to @sjngm's answer:

They both also ignore whitespace:

var foo = "    3     ";
console.log(parseInt(foo)); // 3
console.log(Number(foo)); // 3