ECMAScript proposal at stage 4 of the process.

• Claude Pache (github)
• Gabriel Isenberg (github, twitter)
• Daniel Rosenwasser (github, twitter)
• Dustin Savery (github, twitter)

When looking for a property value that's deep in a tree-like structure, one often has to check whether intermediate nodes exist:

var street = user.address && user.address.street;

Also, many API return either an object or null/undefined, and one may want to extract a property from the result only when it is not null:

var fooInput = myForm.querySelector('input[name=foo]')
var fooValue = fooInput ? fooInput.value : undefined

The Optional Chaining Operator allows a developer to handle many of those cases without repeating themselves and/or assigning intermediate results in temporary variables:

var street = user.