capitalize first letter of a word javascript code example

Example 1: javascript capitalize first letter

const lower = 'this is an entirely lowercase string';
const upper = lower.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + lower.substring(1);

Example 2: javascript uppercase first character of each word

const uppercaseWords = str => str.replace(/^(.)|\s+(.)/g, c => c.toUpperCase());

// Example
uppercaseWords('hello world');      // 'Hello World'