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Well, it's hard to read but it's better than that verbose && method. +1.
– shriek
Commented Sep 15, 2016 at 21:06
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That's the only real safe operator in javascript actually. The logical 'OR' operator that is mentioned above is something else.
– vasilakisfil
Commented Jun 21, 2017 at 13:55
@Filippos can you give an example of different behavior in logical OR vs && method ? I can't think of a difference
– Nate Anderson
Commented Jul 4, 2017 at 18:37
It also allows navigating an anonymous value without assigning it to a variable first.
– Matt Jenkins
Commented Dec 1, 2017 at 13:59
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Love it! Really useful if you want to get the property of an object after an array.find() operation that might not return any results
– Shiraz
Commented Apr 30, 2019 at 14:34

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