I'm using Jquery's datepicker with Jinja. I'm going to be passing dates from the Python side to the HTML & JS side to use with the datepicker, but there may not always be a date, so in the case that a date doesn't exist, can I have the datepicker default to the current date? Or not default to date at all?

        $('#datepicker2').datepicker({
            format: 'mm-dd-yyyy',
            autoclose: true,
            minDate: 0,
        }).datepicker('setDate', 'now')

For example here is a datepicker I'm using. It defaults to the current date, but I want to be able to pass in a date to it to set the date, and if that date is None/Null, then I want it to default to 'now'. Is there some sort of conditional I can tie to it? Any help is appreciated! Thanks!