if-statements, continued
Learn what truthy and falsey mean in JavaScript. Learn how to make if-statements more powerful.
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“Truthy” and “Falsey”
If-statements don’t work only with booleans. We can use any variable type inside the if-statement parentheses.
If we don’t use true
or false
variables, JavaScript will forcibly coerce whatever we put inside the parentheses to true
or false
. It’ll then decide whether to run the code or not.
A value that coerces to true
is referred to as “truthy”. One that coerces to false
is “falsey”.
So how ...