How to retrieve if a file exists or file size is 0

Here are the codes of shell script to retrieve the existence of the file and file size is 0 or not.

File does NOT exist

if [ ! -e /path/to/file/hoge.txt ]; then
    # Process when the file doesn't exist
fi

File size is NOT 0

if [ ! -s /path/to/file/hoge.txt ]; then
    # Process when the file size is 0
fi

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