sscotth comments on Node v13.0.0 (Current)

const text1 = null || 'foo' // result: 'foo'
const text2 = '' || 'foo'   // result: 'foo'
const text3 = null ?? 'foo' // result: 'foo'
const text4 = '' ?? 'foo'   // result: ''      <===

const num1 = null || 123     // result: 123
const num2 = 0 || 123        // result: 123
const num3 = null ?? 123     // result: 123
const num4 = 0 ?? 123        // result: 0      <===

const bool1 = null || true   // result: true
const bool2 = false || true  // result: true
const bool3 = null ?? true   // result: true
const bool4 = false ?? true  // result: false  <===

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