Is there a much more cleaner and shorter way to check if string is empty?

Question

I am working on my express server and I am trying to validate some query parameters. For example I can have query parameter date which might be null or be an empty string. Now the current validation is like this

if(req.query.date && req.query.date !== '')

Is there like a function or a library that I can use like _lodash to keep things more neat?

Answer 1

Your solution is already neat, you can just simplify it to

if(req.query.date)

Try not overuse lodash or other packages, you can write these things by yourself, but all these redundant packages just flood your bundle and make it heavier.