A switch statement doesn't work when the equivalent if statement does

Question

switch(type)
{
    case 'home':
         console.log('home switch');
         break;
}

The above code does not write out to the console, neither does the following:

switch(type)
{
     case "home":
         console.log('home switch');
         break;
}

The following, however, does:

if (type == 'home')
{
     console.log('home if');
}

I don't have a clue why. This isn't a show-stopper, I can use the if statement instead, but I'm genuinely curious as to why this is the case.

NOTE: These statements are a straight replace, nothing else to consider here. No change in scope, no code I'm not mentioning that could be interfering with the value of type.

Answer 1

That's not the equivalent if-statement. The switch statement is specified to use the strict equality === operator.