How to replace multiple spaces with a single space in JavaScript

In this Article we will go through how to replace multiple spaces with a single space 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:

// Replace spaces, tabs and new line characters
const replaceSpaces = str => str.replace(/\s\s+/g, ' ');

// Only replace spaces
const replaceOnlySpaces = str => str.replace(/  +/g, ' ');

replaceSpaces('this\n   is     \ta    \rmessage');  // 'this is a message'