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jet nebula
jet nebula

Reputation: 3

Date field used in Mongoose/Express not getting displayed in PUG

I am exploring PUG and have an express/mongodb/mongoose backend.

In my Pug update form i have a date field

input#date_of_birth.form-control(type='date' name= 'date_of_birth' value=(author==undefined ? '' : author.date_of_birth))

In express, the following express-validator functions are used to sanitize the date input

body('date_of_birth', 'Invalid Date of Birth').isISO8601().optional({checkFalsy: true}),
sanitizeBody('date_of_birth').toDate(),

The author object passed has date value fetched from mongodb through mongoose model find () and is passed on to the pug form.

eg. { "name":"Joe", "date_of_birth":"2015-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"}

This value is being displayed in a label in the pug form but not in the input date field. So, i am unable to update the date field.

what do i need to do to get the date field to display in the input for modification ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 220

Answers (1)

jet nebula
jet nebula

Reputation: 3

Nevermind. i found the answer. This made it compliant for display in pug. Needs to be in YYYY-MM-DD format. 

- let date_of_birth = author.date_of_birth.toISOString().substr(0, 10));

Upvotes: 0

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