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true in the strict sense, but as other answers have noted JavaScript's logical OR operator can behave as sort of a false -coalescing operator, allowing you to achieve the same brevity in many situations.
– Shog9
Commented Jul 7, 2011 at 16:40
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This is not a null-coalescing operator. Null-coalescing only works on a single value, not on a chain of property access/function invocations. You can already do null-coalescing with the logical OR operator in JavaScript.
– user19302
Commented Nov 18, 2016 at 21:52
No, you can do false-coalescing with the logical OR in JavaScript.
– andresp
Commented May 15, 2017 at 13:45

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