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

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maxDate	date,math,beginner

Returns the maximum of the given dates.

Use the ES6 spread syntax with Math.max to find the maximum date value, new Date() to convert it to a Date object.

const maxDate = dates => new Date(Math.max(...dates));

const array = [
  new Date(2017, 4, 13),
  new Date(2018, 2, 12),
  new Date(2016, 0, 10),
  new Date(2016, 0, 9)
];
maxDate(array); // 2018-03-11T22:00:00.000Z