Logical operators in JavaScript — how do you use them?

All values in JavaScript are either “truthy” or “falsy”.

  • a && b evaluates to the first falsy operand,
  • a || b evaluates to the first truthy operand.

Both operators will not evaluate any operands after the one the return.
If all operands don’t match, they will evaluate to the last one.

  • !a evaluates to true if a is falsy and false if a is truthy.

All values are truthy except the following, which are falsy:

  • null
  • undefined
  • false
  • +0
  • -0
  • NaN
  • 0n
  • ""
  • document.all

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