) in JavaScript only considers null or undefined as "nullish" values. If the left-hand side is any other value, even falsy values like "" (empty string), 0 , or false , it will not use the right-hand side:

Dec 11, 2008 · JavaScript has two sets of equality operators: === and !==, and their evil twins == and !=. The good ones work the way you would expect. The good ones work the way you would expect. If the two operands are of the same type and have the same value, then === produces true and !== produces false .

A third use is to produce logical XOR and logical XNOR. In both C and JavaScript, a && b performs a logical AND (true if both sides are true), and a & b performs a bitwise AND. a || b performs a logical OR (true if at least one are true), and a | b performs a bitwise OR.

Mar 7, 2016 · I haven't seen anything here or on MDN. I'm sure I'm just missing something. There's got to be some documentation on this somewhere.

Mar 29, 2022 · Unlike many similar languages, identifiers (such as functional and variable names) in Javascript can contain not only letters, numbers and underscores, but can also contain dollar signs. They are even allowed to start with a dollar sign, or consist only of a dollar sign and nothing else. Thus, $ is a valid function or variable name in Javascript.

Jun 7, 2011 · It's a little hard to google when all you have are symbols ;) The terms to use are "JavaScript conditional operator". If you see any more funny symbols in JavaScript, you should try looking up JavaScript's operators first: Mozilla Developer Center's list of operators. The one exception you're likely to encounter is the $ symbol.

Dec 11, 2009 · Also at In JavaScript, is '!=' the same as '!=='?. More answers, but this is the duplicate target. More answers, but this is the duplicate target. – Peter Mortensen

Mar 2, 2010 · In JavaScript, if you're looking for A or B, but not both, you'll need to do something similar to:

Feb 7, 2009 · JavaScript has both strict and type-converting equality comparison. For strict equality the objects being compared must have the same type and: Two strings are strictly equal when they have the same sequence of characters, same length, and same characters in corresponding positions.

This operator is almost never used in JavaScript. Other programming languages (like C and Java) use it for performance reasons or to work with binary data. In JavaScript, it has questionable performance, and we rarely work with binary data. This operator expects two numbers and returns a number. In case they are not numbers, they are cast to ...