Why The ECMAScript Safe Assignment Operator Proposal is to add a new operator to JavaScript that would allow for safe assignment of values, removing the need for try-catch blocks in many cases.

New logical assignment operators JavaScript has familiar math assignment operators such as +=, which perform the operation and assignment in one go, as a kind of convenience.

It’s not easy keeping up with all the new features the ECMAScript spec brings us every year. Let’s catch up with the highlights from ES11.

After a value is assigned to a variable using the assignment operator, you can assign the value of that variable to another variable using the assignment operator.