What does the || operator do?

The || or Logical OR operator finds the first truthy expression in its operands and returns it. This too employs short-circuiting to prevent unnecessary work. It was used before to initialize default parameter values IN functions before ES6 Default function parameters was supported.

console.log(null || 1 || undefined); //logs 1
function logName(name) {
var n = name || "Mark";
console.log(n);
}
logName(); //logs "Mark"

October 07, 2022
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