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title: Avoid unnecessary if-else chains that only returns a boolean
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# Avoid unnecessary if-else chains that only returns a boolean

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## Metadata{% #metadata %}

**ID:** `javascript-best-practices/no-if-else-return`

**Language:** JavaScript

**Severity:** Warning

**Category:** Best Practices

## Description{% #description %}

This rule is designed to simplify your code by avoiding unnecessary if-else chains that only return a boolean. In JavaScript, it's not necessary to use an if-else statement to return a boolean value from a function. Instead, you can return the result of the boolean expression. This makes your code shorter, cleaner, and easier to understand.

## Non-Compliant Code Examples{% #non-compliant-code-examples %}

```javascript
function getFoo() {
  const foo = computeFoo();
  if (foo) {
    return true;
  } else {
    return false;
  }
}
```

## Compliant Code Examples{% #compliant-code-examples %}

```javascript
function getFoo() {
  const foo = computeFoo();
  return foo;
}
```
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