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@babel/plugin-transform-optional-chaining
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Transform optional chaining operators into a series of nil checks
Transform optional chaining operators into a series of nil checks
See our website @babel/plugin-transform-optional-chaining for more information.
Using npm:
npm install --save-dev @babel/plugin-transform-optional-chaining
or using yarn:
yarn add @babel/plugin-transform-optional-chaining --dev
This package provides a way to access properties of objects using dot notation, similar to optional chaining. However, it does not support the optional chaining syntax and requires manual checks for nullish values.
Lodash's get function allows safe access to object properties, similar to optional chaining. It's a part of the Lodash utility library and requires passing the object path as a string or array, unlike the native-like syntax that optional chaining provides.
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Transform optional chaining operators into a series of nil checks
The npm package @babel/plugin-transform-optional-chaining receives a total of 29,087,159 weekly downloads. As such, @babel/plugin-transform-optional-chaining popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @babel/plugin-transform-optional-chaining demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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