format a date in to the format october 13, 2014 in typescript

To format a date into the format "October 13, 2014" in Typescript, you can use the built-in Date object along with some formatting methods. Here's an example:

const date = new Date('2014-10-13');
const monthNames = ['January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December'];
const month = monthNames[date.getMonth()];
const day = date.getDate();
const year = date.getFullYear();
const formattedDate = `${month} ${day}, ${year}`;

console.log(formattedDate); // output: "October 13, 2014"
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In this example, we first create a new Date object with the desired date value. We then define an array of all the months, which we'll use to look up the correct month name.

Next, we use the getMonth(), getDate(), and getFullYear() methods on the Date object to extract the month, day, and year of our date value.

Finally, we combine the month, day, and year into a string using a template literal and output the formatted date to the console.

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