so are booleans and if-blocks initrinsically linked within JS? I

Hi Paul,

if statements work like this:

if (true) { /* do this */}

Sometimes we can make them more complex than they are, but if you want the code in an if block to run, then the expression between the parens, next to the if keyword, just needs to evaluate as true.

Let's say you have the following code:

const theSkyIsBlue = true

If you wanted to have the message "This is a true statement" print if theSkyIsBlue is true, then you might write something like this...

if (theSkyIsBlue === true) {
    console.log("This is a true statement.");
}

The above code would work just fine, but remember the format for a if block to run is if true do this, and theSkyIsBlue is already true. So you could simply write:

if (theSkyIsBlue) {
    console.log("This is a true statement.");
}

There isn't a video linked to this post, but I imagine that's the point the instructor was trying to get across.