Check if a value is an object in JavaScript

Question

How do you check if a value is an object in JavaScript?

Answer 1

For the purpose of my code I found out this decision which corresponds with some of the answers above:

ES6 variant:

const checkType = o => Object.prototype
                    .toString
                    .call(o)
                    .replace(/\[|object\s|\]/g, '')
                    .toLowerCase();

ES5 variant:

function checkType(o){
   return Object.prototype
                    .toString
                    .call(o)
                    .replace(/\[|object\s|\]/g, '')
                    .toLowerCase();
}

You can use it very simply:

checkType([]) === 'array'; // true
checkType({}) === 'object'; // true
checkType(1) === 'number'; // true
checkType('') === 'string'; // true
checkType({}.p) === 'undefined'; // true
checkType(null) === 'null'; // true

and so on..