How to convert a date to yyyy-mm-dd format in JavaScript

In this Article we will go through how to convert a date to yyyy-mm-dd format only using single line of code in JavaScript. This is a one-line JavaScript code snippet that uses one of the most popular ES6 features => Arrow Function.

Let's define this short function:

const formatYmd = date => date.toISOString().slice(0, 10);

Parameters date is a Date object.

#Example

formatYmd(new Date());      // 2020-05-06