JavaScript Operators: The Basics You Need to Know

A no-fluff guide to the operators you'll actually use every single day. If variables are the boxes where you store stuff, then operators are the tools you use to do things with that stuff. Add two numbers? That's an operator. Check if a user is logged in? Operator. Decide whether to show a discount banner? Yep — operators again. When I started my JavaScript journey in the ChaiCode Web Dev Cohort 2026, operators felt like the easiest part. "It's just math, right?" Well, mostly — until I ran into