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Arjun Vijay Prakash
Arjun Vijay Prakash

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Important JavaScript Shorthands to know 🚀🔥

#javascript #webdev #expert #programming

1) The Ternary Operator

Longhand- 

const x = 20;
let answer;
if (x > 10) {
    answer = "greater than 10";
} else {
    answer =  "less than 10";
}
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Shorthand 

const answer = x > 10 ? "greater than 10" : "less than 10";
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2) Declaring Variables Shorthand

Longhand- 

let x;
let y;
let z = 3;
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let x, y, z=3;
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3) If True Presence Shorthand

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if (likeJavaScript === true)
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Shorthand 

if (likeJavaScript)
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4) If Not True Presence Shorthand

Longhand- 

if (!likeJavaScript === true)
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Shorthand 

if (!likeJavaScript)
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5) Arrow Function Shorthand

Longhand- 

function doAnything(){}
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Shorthand 

let doAnything = () => {}
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Andrew Baisden •

Cool snippets by the way it's better to put that code inside of Markdown Fenced Code Blocks with Syntax Highlighting. It would make them all far more readable.

markdownguide.org/extended-syntax/

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Arjun Vijay Prakash •

Thanks for the suggestion. Will be changing it ASAP.

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codingjlu •

Nice. You can also mention destructuring.

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Arjun Vijay Prakash •

Thanks for the suggestion. I shall look into it in Imp JS Shorthands to know Part2!

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Kilson •

Hi Arjun I'm beginner can you explain to me something about programming? I have a simple doubt, Why you declared let answer?

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Arjun Vijay Prakash •

Hi Kilson, I didn't assigned the value to answer because you see, I changed its value afterwards. if I don't assign it and change the code as follows it will not run the same.
const x = 20;
if (x > 10) {
let answer = "greater than 10";
} else {
let answer = "less than 10";
}
As there will be one problem, we will not be able to access the answer variable because it's scope is inside the if-else statement and the error will be thrown as "answer is not defined"
See this - dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/up...
We can correct the program as- dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/up...

--Conclusion--
I used let answer; to shorten my code and to provide the audience with better and cleaner code.
Thanks! I hope you got the answer

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Kilson •

I tried this way and it worked too

const x = 30;
if (x > 10) {
console.log("greater than 10");
} else {
console.log("less than 10");
}

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Arjun Vijay Prakash •

Yeah. But I assigned the value to the variable that's why I mentioned that ways. Although that is also correct. Thanks for connecting with me. It was a great pleasure.

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Kilson •

Alright

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