JavaScript Conditionals and Control Flow — if, switch, Ternary, and the Modern Nullish Toolkit

hello@ghafoorsblog.com (AG Sayyed) — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 08:00:00 +0000

Why this still matters

Branching is the cheapest way to introduce subtle bugs in any language, and JavaScript adds a few of its own. Loose equality, the unique definition of truthy, the difference between undefined and null, and several decades of habits picked up from other languages all conspire to make if statements harder than they look.

This post brings the basics together with the modern operators (??, ?., logical assignment) that often let you delete a conditional entirely.

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JavaScript Conditionals and Control Flow — if, switch, Ternary, and the Modern Nullish Toolkit

Why this still matters