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The following is (in my book) an elegant approach to avoid nested ternary operations. In response to this article: https://medium.com/chrisburgin/rewriting-javascript-replacing-the-switch-statement-cfff707cf045
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const name = 'Martin' | |
const customer = false | |
const human = true | |
// The object’s keys are irrelevant, since `Object.values` just spits out the object properties into an array. | |
const ternaryOps = Object.values({ | |
1: name === 'Joe' ? 'Hi Joe!' : null, | |
2: customer ? 'Dear customer,' : null, | |
3: human ? `Hey ${name}!` : null, | |
default: 'To Whom It May Concern,' | |
}) | |
// Find the first property that has passed the test | |
.find(x => x) | |
console.log(ternaryOps) // Spits out “Hey Martin!” |
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