Help with java script syntax in record collection

[tigerjay.b4]

I don’t understand what the ! does in "!object[id].hasOwnProperty(“tracks”). I also don’t understand the purpose of using brackets to assign value in the next line "object[id][prop] = [value]; Record Collection

[MrBondx]

== equal
!= not equal

[ArielLeslie]

That is the “not” operator. It casts the value as a boolean and inverts it.
!false is the same as true.
!true is the same as false.

This is usually used with the “truthiness” of a value, usually to check whether something is defined and not null.

const user = {
    username: 'ArielLeslie',
    isAwesome: true,
}

if (!user.firstName) { // if we don't know the user's first name
    askForName(user);
}