30-seconds-of-code/snippets/isWeekend.md

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isWeekend	date,beginner

Results in a boolean representation of a specific date.

• Pass the specific date object firstly.
• Use Date.prototype.getDay() to check weekend based on the day being returned as 0 - 6 using a modulo operation then return a boolean.

const isWeekend = (d = new Date()) => {
  return d.getDay() % 6 === 0;
};

isWeekend(); // 2018-10-19 (if current date is 2018-10-18)