How to trim slashes at the beginning and the end of a string in JavaScript

In this Article we will go through how to trim slashes at the beginning and the end of a string 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 trimSlashes = str => str.replace(/^\/+|\/+$/g, '');

const trimSlashes = str => str.split('/').filter(Boolean).join('/');

trimSlashes('//hello/world///');    // hello/world