Null-safe property access (and conditional assignment) in ES6/2015

Question

Is there a null-safe property access (null propagation / existence) operator in ES6 (ES2015/JavaScript.next/Harmony) like ?. in

Answer 1

No, there is no null propagation operator in ES6. You will have to go with one of the known patterns.

You may be able to use destructuring, though:

({thing: aThing} = possiblyNull);

There are many discussions (e.g. this) to add such an operator in ES7, but none really took off.