How to get the weekday of a date in JavaScript

In this Article we will go through how to get the weekday of a date 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 getWeekday = date => ['Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday'][date.getDay()];

Parameters date is a Date object.