Get current date in DD-Mon-YYY format in JavaScript/Jquery

Question

There is no native format in javascript for DD-Mon-YYYY.

You will have to put it all together manually.

The answer is inspired from :
How do I format a date in JavaScript?

// Attaching a new function  toShortFormat()  to any instance of Date() class

Date.prototype.toShortFormat = function() {

    const monthNames = ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr",
                        "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug",
                        "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"];
    
    const day = this.getDate();
    
    const monthIndex = this.getMonth();
    const monthName = monthNames[monthIndex];
    
    const year = this.getFullYear();
    
    return `${day}-${monthName}-${year}`;  
}

// Now any Date object can be declared 
let anyDate = new Date(1528578000000);

// and it can represent itself in the custom format defined above.
console.log(anyDate.toShortFormat());    // 10-Jun-2018

let today = new Date();
console.log(today.toShortFormat());     // today's date

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