Using &&’s short-circuiting as an if statement?

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Yes, your two examples are equivalent. It works like this in pretty much all languages, but it’s become rather idiomatic in Javascript. Personally I think it’s good in some situations but can be abused in others. It’s definitely shorter though, which can be important to minimize Javascript load times.

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