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Discussion: The Shape Shifter

Explore how JavaScript compares strings and objects using type coercion in this lesson. Understand why certain comparisons yield unexpected results and learn safer methods to verify string cases. This lesson helps you grasp JavaScript's type coercion quirks and improve your problem-solving skills to write clearer code.

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Verifying the output

Now, it’s time to execute the code and observe the output.

Javascript (babel-node-es2024)
const a = "f"<{};
const b = "F"<{};
console.log(a);
console.log(b);

Type coercion

In JavaScript, when we use the < operator to compare values, it ...