In my learning of 'Control Flow' in JavaScript I ran into the Ternary Operator (or Condtional Operator). I find these to be just to cool not to write a little about them.

The Ternary Operator is a real short way to choose between two things instead of using if/else. They a basically structured as:

condition ? if true : if false; The ? is your operator.
So lets do an example.

if (cheese === 'Yellow') {
 console.log("Got me some yellow cheese!");
 } else {
 console.log("Got me some moldy cheese!");
 } 

So doing the above if/else the "Ternary way" would look more like this.

cheese === "Yellow" ? console.log("Got me some yellow cheese!") : console.log("Got me some moldy cheese!");

• So we have our condition - cheese === "Yellow"
• Our True - console.log("Got me some yellow cheese!")
• And our False = console.log("Got me some moldy cheese!")

I don't know why I love this so much. Well I do, it just makes things a bit simpler in my eyes. So give them a go if you haven't before. They are pretty fun.

Cheers!