Is it better to return `undefined` or `null` from a javascript function? [closed]

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Undefined typically refers to something which has not yet been assigned a value (yet). Null refers to something which definitively has no value. In that case, I would recommend returning a null. Note that a function with no specified return value implicitly returns undefined.

From the ECMAScript2015 spec

4.3.10 undefined value

primitive value used when a variable has not been assigned a value

4.3.12 null value

primitive value that represents the
intentional absence of any object value

http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/6.0/#sec-terms-and-definitions-undefined-type

Further reading:

When is null or undefined used in JavaScript?

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