JavaScript function to add X months to a date

Question

I’m looking for the easiest, cleanest way to add X months to a JavaScript date.

I’d rather not handle the rolling over of the year or have to write my own function.<

Answer 1

As most of the answers highlighted, we could use setMonth() method together with getMonth() method to add specific number of months to a given date.

Example: (as mentioned by @ChadD in his answer. )

var x = 12; //or whatever offset 
var CurrentDate = new Date();
CurrentDate.setMonth(CurrentDate.getMonth() + x);

But we should carefully use this solution as we will get trouble with edge cases.

To handle edge cases, answer which is given in following link is helpful.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/13633692/3668866