what is today in javascript

To get today's date in JavaScript, you can use the built-in Date object and its methods getFullYear() and getMonth() as follows:

index.tsx
const today = new Date();
const year = today.getFullYear();
const month = today.getMonth() + 1; // add 1 since getMonth() returns a zero-based index

console.log(`Today is ${year}-${month < 10 ? '0' + month : month}-${today.getDate()}`);
// output (e.g.): "Today is 2022-08-08"
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In the code above, we first create a new Date object with no arguments, which defaults to the current date and time. We then get the year and month from the Date object using the getFullYear() and getMonth() methods. Note that getMonth() returns a zero-based integer, so we add 1 to get the actual month number. Finally, we output the formatted date string using string interpolation (${}) and the getDate() method to get the day of the month. By using a ternary operator (condition ? true : false) to add a leading zero to the month number if it's less than 10, we ensure that the formatted date string always has two digits for the month.