From dbb54a8f14573e3c7512ea01d99f75f6ce0571f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Wheale <ryan.wheale@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2021 14:22:19 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] [Docs] add note and links for coercing primitive values
 (#408)

See #91
---
 .editorconfig |  1 +
 README.md     | 11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.editorconfig b/.editorconfig
index b442a9f9..ed16d717 100644
--- a/.editorconfig
+++ b/.editorconfig
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ charset = utf-8
 trim_trailing_whitespace = true
 insert_final_newline = true
 max_line_length = 160
+quote_type = single
 
 [test/*]
 max_line_length = off
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2b6cab13..cff8ac1d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -280,6 +280,17 @@ assert.deepEqual(arraysOfObjects, { a: ['b', 'c'] })
 ```
 (_this cannot convert nested objects, such as `a={b:1},{c:d}`_)
 
+### Parsing primitive/scalar values (numbers, booleans, null, etc)
+
+By default, all values are parsed as strings. This behavior will not change and is explained in [issue #91](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/91).
+
+```javascript
+var primitiveValues = qs.parse('a=15&b=true&c=null');
+assert.deepEqual(primitiveValues, { a: '15', b: 'true', c: 'null' });
+```
+
+If you wish to auto-convert values which look like numbers, booleans, and other values into their primitive counterparts, you can use the [query-types Express JS middleware](https://github.com/xpepermint/query-types) which will auto-convert all request query parameters.
+
 ### Stringifying
 
 [](#preventEval)