What is the meaning of || in javascript?

This is the logical OR operator in JS (and most other languages). It is defined in the spec at 11.11. As noted in the spec, expressions on either side will be evaluated first and the logical OR is left-to-right associative. Note that evaluation of the operands follows standard ToBoolean semantics from section 9.2, so [null, undefined, 0, ''] all count as falsy.

Unlike most languages, JS returns the left operand if it is truthy or the right operand otherwise. This behavior has been covered before in a number of SO questions, but is worth noting as most languages simply return true or false. This behavior is often used to provide default values to otherwise undefined variables.

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