Lodash get vs. es6 fallback values?

Question

How does Lodash compare to using the new ES6 optional arguments?

I have the following code:

location: {
  latitude: response.pickupLocation.latitude || "",
  longitude: response.pickupLocation.longitude || ""
},

With Lodash I know I could run:

latitude: get(response, 'pickupLocation.latitude', '')

Or alternatively I could create a function that takes in the object and path and always returns ''as the default fallback. Is there any advantage to using Lodash here other than the fact that the code would be shorter?

Answer 1

The advantage of _.get is, you omit continuing checks if a property exist, which would be necessary.

latitude: response && response.pickupLocation && response.pickupLocation.latitude || "",