Format Date with native methods in Javascript

Another little jam learned today.

I have to format dates and for that task I've usually relied to moment library.

This time I wanted to try a different route exploring some built-in methods.

Nowadays, you can use the .toLocaleDateString method of the Date object to performe some basic formatting.

Here how it looks like:

let date = new Date().toLocaleDateString('it-IT', { day: '2-digit', month: '2-digit', year: 'numeric' })

There's the locale parameter and an optional configuration which is well documented here.

For basic formatting the above options are good enough.