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Advanced Node.js Development
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Advanced Node.js Development

by Andrew Mead
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
592 pages
13h 44m
English
Packt Publishing
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Formatting date using Moment

In order to do that what I would do if I had not used Moment before is I would look in the docs for the Day of Month section, and I look at the available options. I have the D pattern that prints 1 through 31, Do that prints what we want, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, so on and so forth, and DD that prints the number with a 0 in front of it for the values less than 10.

Now in this case we want to use Do pattern so all we have to do is type it over inside format. I'm going to open up the Terminal and Atom so we can see it refresh in the background, and we're going to type:

console.log(date.format('MMM Do YYYY')); 

Saving the file, when it starts, we get March 25th 2018, which is indeed correct:

Now we can also add other ...

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