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Replies for: Yeah, it's called "short circuit". I am taking my liberty to explain this concept in detail, since I get the feeling that this is new to you (appo...

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Damien Da Silva Bregieiro •

You're wrong i think.

status && something()
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is not equal to

if (status && logSomething()) {};
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It is equal to

if (status) {
    return something()
} else {
    return status
}
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If you want to assign variables with Logical &&. You can do like this :

let something = "";
status && (something = "This works");
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an other example :

console.log(0 && 5)
// will return 0
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but

console.log(1 && 5)
// will return 5
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es404020 •

Thanks for taking your time to explain