How to get yesterday date in JavaScript

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to get yesterday date and using vanilla JavaScript Date object.

Get Yesterday's Date

To get yesterday date, we will follow the following steps:

1) Get the current timestamp in milliseconds using Date object getTime() method,

const timeStamp = new Date().getTime();

2) Convert 24 hours to milliseconds and subtract it from the current timestamp.,

const yesterdayTimeStamp = timeStamp - 24*60*60*1000;

3) Finally, initialize new Date() constructor with yesterdayTimeStamp

const yesterdayDate = new Date(yesterdayTimeStamp);

Here's the complete code in Vanilla JavaScript

function getYesterdayDate() {
  return new Date(new Date().getTime() - 24*60*60*1000);
}

console.log(getYesterdayDate());

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