In ES6, how do you check the class of an object?

Question

In the ES6, if I make a class and create an object of that class, how do I check that the object is that class?

I can\'t just use typeof because the obj

Answer 1

Can't you do person instanceof Person?

Comparing constructors alone won't work for subclasses

Answer 2

Just a word of caution, the use of instanceof seems prone to failure for literals of built-in JS classes (e.g. String, Number, etc). In these cases it might be safer to use typeof as follows:

typeof("foo") === "string";

Refer to this thread for more info.