short hand for chaining logical operators in javascript?

Question

Is there a better way to write the following conditional in javascript?

if ( value == 1 || value == 16 || value == -500 || value == 42.42 || value == \'somet         


        

Answer 1

nope, that is the shorthand.

as an alternative, you can do a switch

switch (value) {
case 1 :
case 16 :
case -500 :
    ....
}

which is easier to manage if you need a lot of possible values, but actually your version is shorter anyway :)