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JavaScript Brain Teasers: Exercise Your Mind

Discussion: The Shape Shifter

Execute the code to understand the output and gain insights into using the < operator in JavaScript.

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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 performs a process called type coercion to convert the values into a common type before making the comparison.

Understanding the output

In this code snippet, we have a string F on the left side and an empty object {} on the right side. JavaScript ...