how to use the intlformat function from the date-fns library in typescript

To use the intlformat function from the date-fns library in TypeScript, you first need to make sure you have installed the @types/date-fns module, which provides the necessary typings for TypeScript.

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npm install --save date-fns @types/date-fns
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Once installed, you can import the intlFormat function from the date-fns module and use it to format a date:

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import { intlFormat } from 'date-fns';

const date = new Date();
const formattedDate = intlFormat(date, { timeZone: 'UTC', month: 'short', day: 'numeric', year: 'numeric' });
console.log(formattedDate); // 'Aug 5, 2021'
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In this example, we are using the intlFormat function to format the date object as a short date string with the month, day, and year components, using the UTC time zone.

You can customize the formatting options by passing an object with the desired options as the second argument to intlFormat. The available options are listed in the Intl.DateTimeFormatOptions interface, which is part of the JavaScript internationalization API.