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

var value= -55;
switch(value){
    case 1: case 16: case -55: case 42.5: case 'something': 
        alert(value); break;        

}