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TameAntelope

I just avoid most of it by moving the complex conditional logic into a separate component and rendering that.

I don't think I've run into many issues with this strategy, and keeps my return statements nice and clean.

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I find ternaries alone to be totally adequate.

Oh they work, but stacking them tends to make future reading of the code harder due to their increased complexity.

Nested ternaries can by structured to look a look like `if/else` if you put the `?/:` in the right spots.

It's a balance. Extracting logic into new components (and often new files!) isn't exactly ergonomic either.

I've found it's better to decrease readability if it makes understanding the logic more straight-forward (i.e. not hunting through several files to exhaust all possible outputs).

Agreed, if it's more complex than a single ternary, or && statements, make a new component.

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