Why are two identical objects not equal to each other?

Question

Seems like the following code should return a true, but it returns false.

var a = {};
var b = {};

console.log(a==b); //returns false
console.log(a===b); //         


        

Answer 1

===, the strictly equal operator for objects checks for identity.

Two objects are strictly equal if they refer to the same Object.

Those are two different objects, so they differ.

Think of two empty pages of paper. Their attributes are the same, yet they are not the same thing. If you write something on one of them, the other wouldn't change.