Difference between == and === operator in JavaScript

The ‘==’ operator tests for abstract equality i.e. it does the necessary type conversions before doing the equality comparison.
But the ‘===’ operator tests for strict equality i.e it will not do the type conversion hence if the two values are not of the same type, when compared, it will return false.

Example 1:

<script> 
    // In R.H.S. string "3" is converted into 
    // number 3, hence returns true. 
    document.write(9 == "9");  
      
    // used for next line 
    document.write('<br>') 
   
    // Here no type conversion takes place, 
    // hence returns false 
    document.write(9 === "9");  
</script> 

Output:

true
false

Example 2:

<script> 
    // Here L.H.S. is a string literal whereas 
    // R.H.S. is a string object, 
    // due to type conversion of string object into  
    // a string literal, it returns true. 
    document.write("GeeksforGeeks" == new String("GeeksforGeeks")); 
  
    // used for next line 
    document.write('<br>') 
  
    // No type conversion takes place 
    document.write("GeeksforGeeks" === new String("GeeksforGeeks")); 
  
</script> 

Output:

true
false

Example 3:

<script>  
   // Here number 1 is converted into true(boolean type) 
   // as in javascript true is referred as 1 and false is 
   // referred as 0, hence it returns true. 
   document.write(true == '1'); 
  
   // used for next line 
   document.write('<br>')  
  
   // No type conversion so it returns false     
   document.write(true === '1'); 
  
</script> 

Output:

true
false

In general “===” operator is recommended since it never does type conversion we are doing an exact comparison thus it always produces correct results.

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