DateFormattingWithLibrary.md

You can do simple date formatting with a library by using the Intl.DateTimeFormat JavaScript class.

MDN for DateTimeFormat

alert( formatDate(new Date()));
// Apr 11, 2019, 1:10:40 PM

function formatDate(date, locale) {
	if (!locale)
  	locale = 'en-us';

    return new Intl.DateTimeFormat(locale, {
      year: 'numeric',
      day: 'numeric',
      month: 'short',
      hour: 'numeric',
      minute: 'numeric',      
      hour12: true,
    }).format(date);
    
}