Community Plugin

Nullish coalescing operator support for Gatsby’s Babel config

Description

It enables the nullish coalescing operator (a ?? b): see the TC39 proposal

Install the plugin and its dependencies :

npm i gatsby-plugin-nullish-coalescing-operator @babel/core @babel/plugin-proposal-nullish-coalescing-operator

yarn add gatsby-plugin-nullish-coalescing-operator @babel/core @babel/plugin-proposal-nullish-coalescing-operator

Add the plugin in gatsby-config.js:

module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    // other plugins
    'gatsby-plugin-nullish-coalescing-operator',
  ],
}

const myString = '';
const headerText = myString ?? 'Default'; // result: '', whereas `myString || 'Default'` returns 'Default'