In lack of decent formatting ability of Javascript Date object, I have created this "patch" for the Date object which will add the following functions: Date.format (dateObject, format) ...

date-format-ms Formatting of date and times in JS using format codes that match the PHP date () function.

Date-fns in an open-source library supporting date parsing and formatting, locales, and date arithmetic like addition and subtraction. It’s dubbed as Lodash for dates due to its versatility.