get first word string javascript 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: get the first word of a string javascript

let sentence = "The big brown fox"
let word = sentence.split(" ")[0]

console.log(word) // The