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

To use the toDate function from the date-fns library in TypeScript, you need to make sure that you have installed the date-fns package and its types by running the following command:

index.ts
npm install date-fns @types/date-fns
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After that, you can import the toDate function from the date-fns package and use it like this:

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

const dateString = '2022-01-01';
const date = toDate(dateString);

console.log(date); // Output: Sat Jan 01 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0100 (Central European Standard Time)
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The toDate function in date-fns is used to parse a string date representation and returns a Date object. You can pass a string date in any format and the function will return a valid JavaScript Date object.

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