JavaScript now provides ?? and ?. to do things like find the first non-nullish expression or dereference an object if not null.
[Added: "nullish" means "null or undefined", like the nullish coalescing operator].
Is there a good idiomatic way to simply test for non-nullishness? For instance, if I want to only call an onChange() handler if my value is non-nullish. That is:
someVal && onChange(someVal)
Obviously this is incorrect, because it would fail for falsy but non-nullish values (notably 0 and '').
The idiomatic way is an
ifstatement with a comparison againstnull:There is no operator for this. Some people have expressed as desire for an extension to the pipeline operator proposal that would let you write you something like
someVal ?> onChange;, but I don't know of any implementation of that idea.