What's the point of new String(“x”) in JavaScript?

Question

What are the use cases for doing new String(\"already a string\")?

What\'s the whole point of it?

Answer 1

Javascript creators created wrappers for basic types like string or int just to make it similar to java. Unfortunately, if someome makes new String("x") the type of the element will be "object" and not "string".

var j = new String("x");
j === "x"  //false
j == "x" //true