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# JavaScript Shorthand Techniques — Ultimate Cheat-Sheet

**[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 4 min read · 237 upvotes · 19 comments

## Summary

Learn JavaScript shorthand techniques, including the Ternary Operator, short-circuit evaluation, default parameter values, object property shorthand, destructuring assignment, arrow functions, template literals, and array methods.

## Full article

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@fabooy961** · 7 upvotes

> Imao ur missing one. When checking a condition and either return a result/function or null (imao close to the ternary operator #1):
>
> ```javascript
> value && doSomething(value)
>
> // instead of using
> value ? doSomething(value) : null
> ```
>
> but nice summarization on the rest :) thx!

**@hybit** · 3 upvotes

> Can't stress enough the value of map, filter and reduce, especially paired with Object.keys/values/entries. A must-learn.

**@kelmadics** · 2 upvotes

> Nice for the newbs ;) thanks

**@imessenger98** · 2 upvotes

> If you're a beginner in JavaScript, it's important to understand that arrow functions have a different behavior for binding the "this" keyword compared to regular function expressions.

**@ak000ay** · 0 upvotes

> Under rated operator : Nullish coalescing operator (??)

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