counting words from a string in Javascript

wordCount.js

var words = "amake amar moto thakte dao. ami nijeke nijer moto ghuchiye niyechi";
var counter=0;
for (var i = 0; i< words.length ; i++)
{
    if(words[i] == " " && words[i-1] != " " && i != 0 && i != words.length-1)
    {
        counter++;
    }

}
counter++;
console.log("1 No Counter : words in that array is",counter);

// another way is :
const counter2 = words.trim().split(" ").length;
console.log("2 No Counter : words in that array is",counter2);