Is it possible to check for null inline in javascript?

Question

I have a function which parses the address components of the Google Maps API JSON and then returns the city / locality / route name.

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Answer 1

What you want is a null coalescent operator. Javascript doesn't have one. Most of the time peoples use the logical OR || for this purpose but it doesn't work on property access.

There's proposal for adding null coalescing to the language, but it's nowhere near: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-nullish-coalescing
https://tc39.github.io/proposal-nullish-coalescing/

If you really, really, absolutly want to use it you can use this Babel plugin: https://www.npmjs.com/package/babel-plugin-transform-optional-chaining
But I would strongly suggest you don't: this may never make it to the language and you would have unvalid code in your codebase.