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People who writes `if(value)`

But that's not the same; it's about truthy-ness. E.g. -1 and 1 are both truthy, but not loosely equal.

You are right. I confused truthy-ness with '== true' for some reason, didn't write much JS lately.

That's weird, I would thought that if(value) was the equivalent of if(value == true). Learned something today!

You can force cast a boolean by doing if(!!value == true) {}, but at that point you might as well just say if(value)