javascript date to string mm/dd/yyyy code example

Example 1: javascript convert date to yyyy-mm-dd

// `date` is a `Date` object
const formatYmd = date => date.toISOString().slice(0, 10);

// Example
formatYmd(new Date());      // 2020-05-06

Example 2: javascript date to string format dd mmm yyyy

Date.prototype.toShortFormat = function() {

    let monthNames =["Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr",
                      "May","Jun","Jul","Aug",
                      "Sep", "Oct","Nov","Dec"];
    
    let day = this.getDate();
    
    let monthIndex = this.getMonth();
    let monthName = monthNames[monthIndex];
    
    let year = this.getFullYear();
    
    return `${day}-${monthName}-${year}`;  
}

// Now any Date object can be declared 
let anyDate = new Date(1528578000000);

// and it can represent itself in the custom format defined above.
console.log(anyDate.toShortFormat());