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Alternative Conditions

Explore how to write alternative conditions in JavaScript using if and else statements. Understand nested conditions to handle multiple scenarios with clear, readable code, and learn best practices for managing complex decision-making logic.

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You’ll often want to have your code execute one way when something’s true and another way when something’s false.

The else statement

Let’s enrich our sample with different messages depending if the number’s positive or not.

Test this code with a positive number, negative number, and zero, while watching the result in the console. The code executes differently depending on if the condition ...