856149 - Write an MDN article explaining the various equality operators and functions in JavaScript

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: JavaScript, defect, P4)

Description

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

:: Developer Documentation Request

      Request Type: New Documentation
     Gecko Version: unspecified
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:: Details

JavaScript has the == and === operators, as well as in ES6 the Object.is() function. We should have an article on MDN that explains these and how they're different, as well as possible use cases for each.

Comment 1

[[e-mail]]

Probably this is not sufficient, but I've added the following sentence to "Expressions and operators":

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Expressions_and_Operators$compare?to=422537&from=418583

Comment 2

[Colby Russell :crussell (no longer Mozilla-ing)]

I wrote a thing:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Sameness

Comment 3

[David Bruant]

(In reply to Colby Russell :crussell from comment #2)
> I wrote a thing:
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Sameness
Woah ! Excellent ! Thanks!

Comment 4

[Colby Russell :crussell (no longer Mozilla-ing)]

> 11:40 < crussell> someone add JavaScript/Guide/Sameness to
>       https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Template:JSGChapters, please
> 11:40 < crussell> after "Expressions and Operators"

^ Do that, please.

Comment 5

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

Done (though the page using this template will need to be regenerated by ashift-reload)