Shorten your if statements using the '&&' operator

Today I learned a pretty cool trick!

You can use the '&&' operator to shorten your if statements.

So instead of using this:

if (iAmHungry) {
  bakeAnEgg()
}

You can use it like this!

iAmHungry && bakeAnEgg()

Would you use this in your own code?
How would this impact the readability of your code?

Comments

[𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️]

That's very ugly. At the very least use the ternary operator which is at least made for conditionals:

iAmHungry? bakeAnEgg() : 0

[Twan Mulder]

Why is it ugly?

[𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️]

&& and || are not meant as control-flow syntax but as operators, so using them for the former will confuse people and just look weird. It aso provides no real benefit when compared to either

iAmHungry? bakeAnEgg() : 0

or

if (iAmHungry) bakeAnEgg();

[Twan Mulder]

Thanks for the detailed response! This is definitely a good case against using '&&' as an operator.

[Decade]

The first way is much friendly to debugger

[Twan Mulder]

Why?

[crivote]

Because is very limited. How would you add an else clause?

[Twan Mulder]

Good question!

If the else clause if very simple, you could use a ternary operator instead.
So something like:

iAmHungry ? bakeAnEgg() : console.log("I'm not hungry!")