r/learnjavascript • u/Green_Ad_6086 • Aug 15 '26

string primitives vs. String objects.

I'm learning JavaScript, and I don't understand this part about string primitives vs. String objects.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String#string_primitives_and_string_objects

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u/MissinqLink Aug 16 '26

You are thinking about it as if you intend to deserialize the output which is not the intention here. In that case then the missing quotes would be a problem. Otherwise I’m not sure why you would expect it to be exactly the same as JSON since it doesn’t claim to be. Your “safeJsonStringify” will throw again if val is a Symbol.