How to get current week days javascript

Question

I want to get current weekdays

Let's say Today is 29 Wednesday (29 day and Wednesday Week)

How do I get this

*26 Sunday

*27 Monday

*28 Tuesday

*29 Wednesday

30 Thursday

31 Friday

1 Saturday

Does this answer your question? [Day Name from Date in JS](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24998624/day-name-from-date-in-js) — Stalinko, Sep 29 '21 at 07:26
Welcome to SO! Can you show what you have done so far and where you do struggle at? — Aziza Kasenova, Sep 29 '21 at 07:27
I always recommend using momentjs or luxon as they handle the special cases — Mustafa Jawad Abdulla Sarhan, Sep 29 '21 at 07:43

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 29 '21 at 07:43

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const name = ['Sun', 'Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 'Thu', 'Fri', 'Sat']
const now = Date.now();
const DAY = 60 * 60 * 24 * 1000;
const today = new Date(now).getDay();

for (let i = today; i >= 0; i--) {
  const date = new Date(now - DAY * i);
  console.log("*",name[date.getDay()], date.getDate());
}
for (let i = 1; i < 7 - today; i++) {
  const date = new Date(now + DAY * i);
  console.log(name[date.getDay()], date.getDate());
}

answered Sep 29 '21 at 07:43

kyun

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can you explain why it start from 26 where it should start from today which is 29 – Mustafa Jawad Abdulla Sarhan Sep 29 '21 at 07:48
@MustafaJawadAbdullaSarhan today is 29 but the first day of this week is 26. – kyun Sep 29 '21 at 07:49

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 29 '21 at 07:34

The function you're looking for on a Date object is getDay(). It returns a number between 0 and 6 (where 0 is Sunday). You could create an array of day names and use the getDay function to fetch the name from it. E.g.

const dayNames = [
    'Sunday',
    'Monday',
    'Tuesday',
    'Wednesday',
    'Thursdsay',
    'Friday',
    'Saturday',
];

// get todays date
const today = new Date();
return dayNames(today.getDay());

You can read more about the getDay function on the MDN web docs here and the Date object here.

Similarly getDate() returns the date of the Date object.

How to get current week days javascript

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