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JavaScript get month name

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Using JavaScript Internationalization API we can now simply get month name from JavaScript Date object instance.

let today = new Date();
today.toLocaleString('default', { month: 'long' }); // April

This will return a full month name according to the current browser locale.
Month name can be represented in three styles: long, short and narrow. Here are the remaining two:

today.toLocaleString('default', { month: 'short' }); // Apr
today.toLocaleString('default', { month: 'narrow' }); // A

We can also force any locale passing a string with BCP 47 language tag as a first parameter.

today.toLocaleString('pl-PL', { month: 'long' }); // kwiecień

This will return “kwiecień” which is Polish equivalent for “April”.

Useful links:
Can I use… Date: toLocaleString
Date.prototype.toLocaleString() | MDN
Intl.DateTimeFormat() constructor |MDN

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