How to check if the touch events are supported in JavaScript

In this Article we will go through how to check if the touch events are supported only using single line of code in JavaScript. This is a one-line JavaScript code snippet that uses one of the most popular ES6 features => Arrow Function.

Let's define this short function:

const touchSupported = () => ('ontouchstart' in window || window.DocumentTouch && document instanceof window.DocumentTouch);