Multiple return keyword in a function

It is quite common to have conditional statements in a function that have different return values. One benefit of this approach is that you can exit a function early and prevent having to process the rest of the statements in the function. For example, you might have a function like the following, which is from a blackjack game I coded, where I return early if neither the player nor the dealer have blackjack, but continue to do other things in the function if at least one of them has blackjack:

function checkForBlackJack() {
  if (!dealer.hasBlackjack && !player.hasBlackjack) return false;
  if (dealer.hasBlackjack) {
    if (!player.hasBlackjack) result('lose', "Lose: (D:BJ)");
    else result('push', "Push: (BJ)");
  }
  else {
    result('bj', "Win! Blackjack!")
  }
  displayCards(player, cardsEl);
  checkDealerHand();
  return true;
}

Hopefully this clears things up for you, but if not, reply and I'll see if I can clarify.

I can see this from a conditional outcome, does this apply for conditionals only or are there any other cases where there are multiple returns? And yes this makes sense. Thank you

I can't think of how you could have more than one useful return without a conditional to force one to be executed vs. the other. You can of course put multiple returns in a function, but without some sort of condition to bypass the first one, the later ones will never get called because the function is exited when the return statement is called.