How to get the value of a cookie in JavaScript

In this Article we will go through how to get the value of a cookie 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 cookie = name => `; ${document.cookie}`.split(`; ${name}=`).pop().split(';').shift();

cookie('_ga');      // GA1.2.825309271.1581874719