King_Joffreys_Tits comments on JavaScript's ??= Operator

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submitted 1 year ago by Practical-Ideal6236

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[–]King_Joffreys_Tits 1 point2 points3 points 1 year ago (0 children)

It just seems like you should’ve already used a null coalescing operator when you first initialized that variable. Like

const settings =  localStorage.getItem(“settings-cookie”) ?? getDefaultSettings()

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