Can someone explain why the value of result in the following code is false?

Question

const o = {
name: "Brendan"
};
const s = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(o));
const result = s === o;

I thought the value of result would be true since parse recreates the object after stringify converts o to JSON text. Thanks

Answer 1

It does, it recreates an object which looks the same, but is not the same object.
If you compare them by attributes, though, the comparison will be true.

Try:
s.name === o.name

Answer 2

Thank you for your response - I really appreciate it. I guess then the point of confusion for me is the meaning of === in this context - I realize that the recreation is a new object with identitical property/value pairs, but my understanding was that the === comparison operator was checking to see if two variables/arrays/data type were of equal value and data type, not that they are identical variables or containers - my apologies, still a beginner and trying to wrap my head around this.