JavaScript Operator Precedence and Associativity: A Developer's Complete Guide

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Monday, July 28, 2025

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As JavaScript developers, we write expressions every day without thinking twice about how the JavaScript engine evaluates them. But understanding operator precedence and associativity is crucial for writing predictable, bug-free code and avoiding those head-scratching moments when your code doesn’t behave as expected.