Why false == “false” is false?

Question

I am still learning the basics of javaScript and I don\'t understand why this happens.

Having type coercion false == \"false\"would be converted into:

Answer 1

The answer is because "false" is a string (as Gerardo Furado pointed out in the comments), the test you are making is equivalent to false = "hello".

Javascript does not look at the word in the string to determine if it is a boolean and then try to get the value from that.

Note:

In general in javascript it is now preferred that you use the === operator, to avoid all of this.