String value vs string literal

JavaScript
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What is the difference between string value and string literal?

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Were getting into distinctions here, but the way I think of it is that a string value is the value stored into a variable. A string literal is actually writing out the string in the code. In something like:

let name = 'Dave';

in this 'Dave' is the string literal, you have written it out, exactly as you want it to be. When the code gets compiled, it has to has to create a section of memory just for that, just as you wrote it, or “as it is written”, another way to say “literal”.

When they talk about “literals”, that’s how I think of it in my head. You could also have an object literal:

const myObj = { prop1: 123 };

In this case, { prop1: 123 } is an object literal.

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