Get Programming with JavaScript Next

Lesson 6. New string methods

After reading lesson 6, you will

• Know how to use String.prototype.startsWith
• Know how to use String.prototype.endsWith
• Know how to use String.prototype.includes
• Know how to use String.prototype.repeat
• Know how to use String.prototype.padStart
• Know how to use String.prototype.padEnd

None of these methods would be extremely difficult to implement, but they are tasks that are used enough to warrant inclusion in the standard library.

Consider this

Let’s say you’re writing a function that tells the current time. Using an instance of the Date object, you can get the current hour and minutes with the getHours and getMinutes methods, respectively:

function getTime() { const date = new Date(); return date.getHours() ...