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@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ In many practical cases we'd prefer to get `undefined` instead of an error here
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let html = document.querySelector('.elem').innerHTML; // error if it's null
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```
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Once again, if the element doesn't exist, we'll get an error accessing `.innerHTML` of `null`. And in some cases, when the absence of the element is normal, we'd like to avoid the error and just accept `html = null` as the result.
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Once again, if the element doesn't exist, we'll get an error accessing `.innerHTML` property of `null`. And in some cases, when the absence of the element is normal, we'd like to avoid the error and just accept `html = null` as the result.
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How can we do this?
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alert(user.address ? user.address.street : undefined);
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```
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It works, there's no error... But it's quite inelegant. As you can see, the `"user.address"` appears twice in the code. For more deeply nested properties, that becomes a problem as more repetitions are required.
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It works, there's no error... But it's quite inelegant. As you can see, the `"user.address"` appears twice in the code.
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E.g. let's try getting `user.address.street.name`.
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Here's how the same would look for `document.querySelector`:
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We need to check both `user.address` and `user.address.street`:
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```js run
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let html = document.querySelector('.elem') ? document.querySelector('.elem').innerHTML : null;
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```
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We can see that the element search `document.querySelector('.elem')` is actually called twice here. Not good.
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For more deeply nested properties, it becomes even uglier, as more repetitions are required.
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E.g. let's get `user.address.street.name` in a similar fashion.
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```js
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let user = {}; // user has no address
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That's just awful, one may even have problems understanding such code.
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Don't even care to, as there's a better way to write it, using the `&&` operator:
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There's a little better way to write it, using the `&&` operator:
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```js run
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let user = {}; // user has no address
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The code is short and clean, there's no duplication at all.
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Here's an example with `document.querySelector`:
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```js run
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let html = document.querySelector('.elem')?.innerHTML; // will be null, if there's no element
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```
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Reading the address with `user?.address` works even if `user` object doesn't exist:
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```js run
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*/!*
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*!*
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userGuest.admin?.(); // nothing (no such method)
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userGuest.admin?.(); // nothing happens (no such method)
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*/!*
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```
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Here, in both lines we first use the dot (`userAdmin.admin`) to get `admin` property, because we assume that the user object exists, so it's safe read from it.
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Here, in both lines we first use the dot (`userAdmin.admin`) to get `admin` property, because we assume that the `user` object exists, so it's safe read from it.
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Then `?.()` checks the left part: if the admin function exists, then it runs (that's so for `userAdmin`). Otherwise (for `userGuest`) the evaluation stops without errors.
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let user = null;
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user?.name = "John"; // Error, doesn't work
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// because it evaluates to undefined = "John"
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// because it evaluates to: undefined = "John"
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```
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It's just not that smart.
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````
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## Summary
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A chain of `?.` allows to safely access nested properties.
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Still, we should apply `?.` carefully, only where it's acceptable that the left part doesn't exist. So that it won't hide programming errors from us, if they occur.
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Still, we should apply `?.` carefully, only where it's acceptable, according to our code logic, that the left part doesn't exist. So that it won't hide programming errors from us, if they occur.
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