JavaScript Ternary Operator
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Learn the basics of the JavaScript Ternary Operator
The ternary operator is the only operator in JavaScript that works with 3 operands, and it’s a short way to express conditionals.
This is how it looks:
<condition> ? <expression> : <expression>
The condition <condition>
is evaluated as a boolean, and upon the result, the operator runs the first expression (if the condition is true) or the second.
This is an example: we check if running
equals to true, and if this is the case we call the stop()
function. Otherwise we call the run()
function:
Example usage:
const running = true;
(running === true) ? stop() : run()
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