Get the weekday from a Date object or date string using JavaScript

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Use this function, comes with date string validation:

If you include this function somewhere in your project,

// Accepts a Date object or date string that is recognized by the Date.parse() method
function getDayOfWeek(date) {
  const dayOfWeek = new Date(date).getDay();    
  return isNaN(dayOfWeek) ? null : 
    ['Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday'][dayOfWeek];
}

You will be able to use it anywhere easily like this:

getDayOfWeek( "2013-07-31" )
> "Wednesday"

getDayOfWeek( new Date() ) // or
getDayOfWeek( Date.now() )
> // (will return today's day. See demo jsfiddle below...)

If invalid date string is used, a null will be returned.

getDayOfWeek( "~invalid string~" );
> null

Valid date strings are based on the Date.parse() method as described in the MDN JavaScript reference.

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/samliew/fo1nnsgp/

Of course you can also use the moment.js plugin, especially if timezones are required.

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