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When I was learning JavaScript, I'd occasionally come across this claim in tutorials or discussion forums:

“In JavaScript, everything is an object.”

Without really thinking about it, I picked up the idea that all variables in JS were objects. Now that I use JavaScript extensively at work and understand it a little better, I wanted to come back to that claim.

Let's get the answer out of the way: it isn't correct.

But if you're reading this, you're probably like me: you want to know why people say “everything in JavaScript is an object,” what supports that argument, and what the counterarguments are. Let's look at both sides and clear up a few JavaScript concepts along the way.