E0345: using equality or inequality operators against an object literal always produces the same result

Using equality or inequality operators against any object literal will always yield false or true respectively, e.g.

const cat = {
  name: 'Morris',
  sex: 'Male',
};

// the expression inside the if statement is always 'false'
if (cat === { name: 'Morris', sex: 'Male' }) { 
}

// the expression inside the if statement is always 'true'
if (cat !== { name: 'Morris', sex: 'Male' }) { 
}

To fix this particular example, we could compare the properties manually

const cat = {
  name: 'Morris',
  sex: 'Male',
};

if (cat.name === 'Morris' && cat.sex === 'Male') {
}

Introduced in quick-lint-js version 2.10.0.

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