The latest articles on DEV Community by Dev (@deevoid). https://dev.to/deevoid https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F409380%2F9e511b76-5dd9-449f-8dcb-f82644c42a35.png https://dev.to/deevoid en Dev Sat, 25 Jul 2020 16:48:14 +0000 https://dev.to/deevoid/a-beginner-friendly-guide-to-optional-chaining-in-javascript-4men https://dev.to/deevoid/a-beginner-friendly-guide-to-optional-chaining-in-javascript-4men <h2> Optional Chaining has become one of my favorite ES2020 features. </h2> <p>Optional chaining allows you to safely access the nested object properties without the hassle to check validity of each one of them.<br> <strong>Instead of using &amp;&amp; to check for null or undefined, directly use ?.</strong><br> When you want to use an object's property you must check if it exists otherwise you may get a type error.<br> Thus in ES2020 we have ?. operator which does the job for you.</p> <p><a href="https://media.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fi%2Fwtod8g3h5lhep1589ruk.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://media.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fi%2Fwtod8g3h5lhep1589ruk.png" alt="Alt Text"></a></p> <p><strong>So when are you going to use optional chaining next?</strong></p> javascript optionalchaining beginners objects