Get the name of an object's type

Question

Is there a JavaScript equivalent of Java\'s class.getName()?

Answer 1

Lodash has many isMethods so if you're using Lodash maybe a mixin like this can be useful:

  // Mixin for identifying a Javascript Object

  _.mixin({
      'identify' : function(object) {
        var output;
          var isMethods = ['isArguments', 'isArray', 'isArguments', 'isBoolean', 'isDate', 'isArguments', 
              'isElement', 'isError', 'isFunction', 'isNaN', 'isNull', 'isNumber', 
              'isPlainObject', 'isRegExp', 'isString', 'isTypedArray', 'isUndefined', 'isEmpty', 'isObject']

          this.each(isMethods, function (method) {
              if (this[method](object)) {
                output = method;
                return false;
              }
          }.bind(this));
      return output;
      }
  });

It adds a method to lodash called "identify" which works as follow:

console.log(_.identify('hello friend'));       // isString

Plunker: http://plnkr.co/edit/Zdr0KDtQt76Ul3KTEDSN