JavaScript basics logical operators

In today's article, we'll be looking at JavaScript logical operators. JavaScript comes with three logical operators being and, or and not.

Check out the below table of the basic use cases.

Let's have a more detailed view of each of these logical operators in JavaScript.

JavaScript And operator permalink

The and operator can be used to assess if two expressions are met.

The syntax is as follows:

expression && expression;

Some examples might be:

const a = true;
const b = 5;
a === true && b > 3;
// true

The return will always be an evaluation in the form of a boolean. We are returning either true if both expressions are met or false when one or both fails.

The operator is often used with a if...else statement to perform an action based on the logic.

JavaScript Or operator permalink

Much like the and operator, we can also use the or operator, which is used by placing two pipes like this: ||. This operator is used to evaluate if both or one of the expressions is met.

expression || expression;

Let's say we want to check if a is true or b is greater than 3. We don't need both to be truthy, just one.

const a = true;
const b = 1;
a === true || b > 3;
// true

The above example will still return true since it will succeed to be correct.

JavaScript Not operator permalink

This is a bit of a funny one, as it is used to invert the value of a boolean.

So let's say we have a true boolean and want to convert it to false:

let a = true;
!a;
// false

However, using this in an if statement will evaluate if the condition is NOT met.

let a = true;

if (!a) {
  // It will never get here now
}

However, we mainly use this to convert a value to the opposite boolean value.

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