Basic Algorithm Scripting - Falsy Bouncer

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:
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Your code so far

function bouncer(arr) {
  let newArr = [];
  for(let i = 0; i < arr.length; i++){
    if(Boolean(arr[i]) === true){
      newArr.push(arr[i]);
    return newArr;
    }
  }
}

bouncer([7, "ate", "", false, 9]);

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Challenge: Basic Algorithm Scripting - Falsy Bouncer
Hey everyone, am stuck on why my code cant work,please someone to review and correct me…thanks.
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Your return statement is in the wrong place. It will return newArr as soon as it finds the first truthy value, which is not what you want.

As an aside, you don’t need to explicitly convert arr[i] to a boolean value. if (arr[i]) {...} works just as well, and saves you some extra typing.

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