What are Assignment Operators in Javascript

Simple assignment is = as shown in the following example.

var num = 1;

Compound assignment operators are shorthand for the simple assignment.


var num = 1;
num = num + 1;
console.log(num);

The second line of code can be replaced with a compound assignment:


var num = 1;
num += 1;
console.log(num);

Compound-assignment operators in Javascript are as follows: