How to convert a full date to a short date in javascript?

Question

I have a date like this Monday, January 9, 2010

I now want to convert it to

1/9/2010 mm/dd/yyyy

I tried to do this

    var startDat         


        

Answer 1

You could do this pretty easily with my date-shortcode package:

const dateShortcode = require('date-shortcode')

var startDate = 'Monday, January 9, 2010'
dateShortcode.parse('{M/D/YYYY}', startDate)
//=> '1/9/2010'