Interesting way to inverse number in JavaScript

It’s binary inversion. ~n = -(n + 1)

Comments

[Chen Asraf]

There is a nice trick of turning indexOf results into booleans involving this method.
Take the following code:

const txt = 'contains';
const contains = txt.indexOf('contains') > -1;

Can be turned into:

const txt = 'contains';
const contains = ~txt.indexOf('contains');

Since -1 will turn to 0 it will be resolved as false when doing a naive bool comparison, and other numbers (0 and up) will change into numbers which will be considered true.

I personally prefer to have things more readable, and also there are standard methods that aim to remove the need for these types of checked (includes for example), so I don't use it at all. But it's a nice thing to think about :)