How do I display todays date in Node.js Jade?

Question

I am new to Node.js and Jade and I have tried to use #{Date.now()} and it\'s giving me numbers. How do I display the date in mm/dd/yy format?

Answer 1

You will need to use the methods on the Date object to achieve what you're after. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date

For example, the code below should do what you need:

var dateNow = new Date();
var dd = dateNow.getDate();
var monthSingleDigit = dateNow.getMonth() + 1,
    mm = monthSingleDigit < 10 ? '0' + monthSingleDigit : monthSingleDigit;
var yy = dateNow.getFullYear().toString().substr(2);

var formattedDate = mm + '/' + dd + '/' + yy;

So if you were using say jade with express and node you could do something like:

res.render('jadeTemplateName', { 
    dateNow: function() {
        var dateNow = new Date();
        var dd = dateNow.getDate();
        var monthSingleDigit = dateNow.getMonth() + 1,
            mm = monthSingleDigit < 10 ? '0' + monthSingleDigit : monthSingleDigit;
        var yy = dateNow.getFullYear().toString().substr(2);

        return (mm + '/' + dd + '/' + yy);
    } 
})

and in your jade template say if you wanted to add the date to a span:

span Today's date is #{dateNow()}