Get in the habit of using the strict comparison operators (=== and !==) in JavaScript. When you use == or != JavaScript will, depending on the values being compared, perform automatic type conversion, which can cause some odd and unexpected behavior.

Take this example:

'0' == 0; // Evaluates to true.

How is a string containing the character 0 equal to the integer zero? Because, when using == or !=, JavaScript converts the string into a number before performing the comparison. Using the strict comparison operators works as expected:

'0' === 0; // Evaluates to false.

That’s just one example of how automatic type conversion can get you into an unexpected and hard-to-debug situation. Using === and !== will avoid such nonsense and always do what you expect.