JavaScript · Language basics

Nullish coalescing

Uses the fallback only when the left side is null or undefined, unlike || which also replaces 0 and "".

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Syntax

value ?? fallback

Example

Try it

const count = 0;
console.log(count ?? 10);
console.log(count || 10);

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