how to use the todate function from date-fns in javascript

To use the toDate function from date-fns, which converts a Date-like object into a native Date object, you first need to install the date-fns library. You can do this using npm or yarn:

npm install date-fns
# or
yarn add date-fns
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Once you have installed the library, you can import the toDate function and use it like this:

index.tsx
import { toDate } from 'date-fns';

const dateString = '2022-06-30T20:00:00.000Z';
const dateLikeObject = new Date(dateString);
const nativeDate = toDate(dateLikeObject);

console.log(nativeDate); // Output: Thu Jun 30 2022 23:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)
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In the example above, we first create a Date object from an ISO date string. We then pass this object to the toDate function, which converts it into a native Date object. Finally, we log the output of the toDate function to the console.

Alternatively, you can also use the parse function from date-fns to convert a date string into a Date object and then use the toDate function to convert it into a native Date. Here's an example:

index.tsx
import { parse, toDate } from 'date-fns';

const dateString = '2022-06-30T20:00:00.000Z';
const parsedDate = parse(dateString, "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSxxx", new Date());
const nativeDate = toDate(parsedDate);

console.log(nativeDate); // Output: Thu Jun 30 2022 23:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)
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In this example, we use the parse function to convert the ISO date string into a Date object, and then pass that Date object to the toDate function to convert it into a native Date. Note that the second argument to parse specifies the format of the input date string.