How to check if a variable is of type object in JavaScript?

Originally posted here!

To check if a variable is an object, you can use the typeof operator followed by the variable and we also need to check if the variable is not null value because null is of type object in JavaScript.

// Check if variable is an object
const variable = {
  name: "John Doe",
  age: 23,
};

typeof variable === "object" && variable !== null; // true

/*
 Boolean true means the variable is of object type
*/

• If the above condition returns true, then the variable is of type object.
• This is a better way to check if a variable is of type object.

See the above code live in JSBin.

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Comments

[Damon Muma]

Should be noted that Arrays are Objects in js, so this may not be what people are looking for