Lightest way to get the date and time in the format you want

dateTime.js

const getTodayDefault = () => {
  return new Date().toDateString();
}

const getTodayCondensed = () => {
  return new Date().toLocaleDateString();
}

const getTodayExpanded = () => {
  let d = new Date();
  let options = {
    weekday: 'long',
    month: 'long',
    day: 'numeric',
    year: 'numeric',
  };
  return d.toLocaleDateString(undefined, options);
}

const getTimeNow = () => {
  let d = new Date();
  let options = {
    hour12: true,
    hour: '2-digit',
    minute: '2-digit',
    timeZoneName: "short"
  };
  return d.toLocaleTimeString(undefined, options);
}

const getRawTimestampNow = () => {
  return Date.now();
}

const getRawDateTimeNow = () => {
  return new Date().toString();
}

/* Your custom format here: */
// https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date

module.exports = {
  getTodayDefault,
  getTodayCondensed,
  getTodayExpanded,
  getTimeNow,
  getRawTimestampNow,
  getRawDateTimeNow
}

usage.md

Here is an example of how to use this in React JS:

import dateTime from '../utils/dateTime';

// ...

return(
  <div>
    <p>Default: {dateTime.getTodayDefault()}</p>
    <p>Condensed: {dateTime.getTodayCondensed()}</p>
    <p>Expanded: {dateTime.getTodayExpanded()}</p>
    <p>Time Now: {dateTime.getTimeNow()}</p>
    <p>Raw Timestamp Now: {dateTime.getRawTimestampNow()}</p>
    <p>Raw Date Time Now: {dateTime.getRawDateTimeNow()}</p>
  </div>
)

Feel free to modify this for your own needs. The function names were selected such that they would not conflict with existing Date object function names.