How do I get a date in YYYY-MM-DD format?

Question

Normally if I wanted to get the date I could just do something like

var d = new Date(); console.log(d);

The problem with doing that, is when I

Answer 1

What you want to achieve can be accomplished with native JavaScript. The object Date has methods that generate exactly the output you wish.
Here are code examples:

var d = new Date();
console.log(d);
>>> Sun Jan 28 2018 08:28:04 GMT+0000 (GMT)
console.log(d.toLocaleDateString());
>>> 1/28/2018
console.log(d.toLocaleString());
>>> 1/28/2018, 8:28:04 AM

There is really no need to reinvent the wheel.