atmin

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• The Double-Bang (!!) Operator And A Misunderstanding Of How JavaScript Handles Truthy / Falsy Values

  Posted on Jul 4, 2020 at 1:42 PM

  I think of it not as a "constructor", but as a "type", lack of new helps with that perception. Less punctuation (albeit more characters overall) feels more elegant to me ¯_(ツ)_/¯... read more »

• The Double-Bang (!!) Operator And A Misunderstanding Of How JavaScript Handles Truthy / Falsy Values

  Posted on Jul 4, 2020 at 4:48 AM

  If you want to cast something to boolean, I find Boolean(something) most obvious. And if you want to filter out falsy values from an array, [...].filter(Boolean)... read more »