get first 10 char from string in node js code example

Example 1: how to get the first character of a string in javascript

let str = 'John Wick'
let firstChar = str.charAt(0) 
console.log(firstChar); // "J"

Example 2: how to fetch first 10 characters of a string in node js

var str = '12345678value';
var strshortened = str.slice(0,8);