Is empty string treated as falsy in javascript?

Question

I\'ve noticed that if you have a statement as the following:

var test = \"\" || null

test will evaluate to null b

Answer 1

Yes an empty string is falsy, however new String("") is not.

Note also that it's well possible that

if (x) { ... }

is verified, but that

if (x == false) { ... }

is verified too (this happens for example with an empty array [] or with new String("")).