Change format of md-datepicker in Angular Material with momentjs

Question

Angular material introduced a new date picker component found here.

I want the date returned by this component to be in the format yyy-mm-dd but I am not su

Answer 1

For angular-material >= 5.x.x

The recommended way of using other custom/predefined date formats is described in the angular material documentation:

https://material.angular.io/components/datepicker/overview#choosing-a-date-implementation-and-date-format-settings

An implementation example using MomentJS for customizing and parsing datetime display formats:

...
import { MomentModule } from 'angular2-moment';

import { MatMomentDateModule, MomentDateAdapter, MAT_MOMENT_DATE_FORMATS } from '@angular/material-moment-adapter';
import { DateAdapter, MAT_DATE_FORMATS, MAT_DATE_LOCALE} from '@angular/material/core';

...

// moment formats explanation: https://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/format/
export const MY_FORMATS = {
    parse: {
      dateInput: 'YYYY-MM-DD',
    },
    display: {
      dateInput: 'YYYY-MM-DD',
      monthYearLabel: 'MMM YYYY',
      dateA11yLabel: 'YYYY-MM-DD',
      monthYearA11yLabel: 'MMMM YYYY',
    },
  };

  ...

@Component({
    ...
    providers: [
        // `MomentDateAdapter` and `MAT_MOMENT_DATE_FORMATS` can be automatically provided by importing
        // `MatMomentDateModule` in your applications root module. We provide it at the component level
        // here, due to limitations of our example generation script.
        {provide: DateAdapter, useClass: MomentDateAdapter, deps: [MAT_DATE_LOCALE]},
        // {provide: MAT_DATE_FORMATS, useValue: MAT_MOMENT_DATE_FORMATS},
        {provide: MAT_DATE_FORMATS, useValue: MY_FORMATS}
    ]
})

...

Depending on your implementation, inside the component you might also need to use:

date = new FormControl(moment());

You must also install Moment library and adapter for Angular:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/angular2-moment

npm install --save angular2-moment

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@angular/material-moment-adapter

npm install --save @angular/material-moment-adapter