How to get the yesterday date in JavaScript

In this Article we will go through how to get the yesterday 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 yesterday = (d => new Date(d.setDate(d.getDate() - 1)))(new Date);

const yesterday = new Date((new Date()).valueOf() - 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24);