Discussion on "The best way to get the month name from a date in JavaScript"

Tapas Adhikary · 2023-09-14T11:53:59.380Z

JavaScript Date object provides many helpful methods for dealing with date and time. The list is so vast that it is sometimes hard for developers to track which method provides what value. Also, it is a bit tricky to retrieve a few information straig...

I'm trying to extract month name from the date column. It has been giving me an error. monthname.in

I have had some past encounters with the Date API in past when doing some calendar stuff and it can get messy. Even though now unmaintained, I have found moment still being a quick and easy way to get the desired formatted date with relative and locale data being consistent. Do you have any recommendations for new Date libraries that you have encountered or do you think JavaScript Internationalization API standard itself would be enough going forward to use instead of other libraries when used in production apps ?

Hey Lakshya Thakur, yes! The JavaScript Internationalization API has huge potential. In fact, the best method shown in the article uses the same API internally(dateTimeFormat) method.

You should also look into the Temporal API.. that's in stage 3 of the proposal now.

This came to my feed just when I needed it, I appreciate it!

Discussion

The best way to get the month name from a date in JavaScript

Responses(3)

Recent in Forum

Search Hashnode

The best way to get the month name from a date in JavaScript

Responses(3)

Recent in Forum