Jasmine JavaScript Testing - toBe vs toEqual

Question

Let\'s say I have the following:

var myNumber = 5;
expect(myNumber).toBe(5);
expect(myNumber).toEqual(5);

Both of the above tests will pass

Answer 1

To quote the jasmine github project,

expect(x).toEqual(y); compares objects or primitives x and y and passes if they are equivalent

expect(x).toBe(y); compares objects or primitives x and y and passes if they are the same object