How to add days to a date in Angular2?

Question

I simply want to create a date that is 3 days from now for use in a typescript angular component.

I have looked at Angular2 moment but this seems only to relate to pipes. Although I did see this article about using pipes in code, looks a bit hacky...

Maybe I'm missing something as this should be really simple?!

Thanks

Answer 1

date: Date;

ngOnInit() {
  this.date = new Date();
  this.date.setDate( this.date.getDate() + 3 );
}

Then you can use the date pipe to display the date nicely in your HTML

{{ date | date }}

Which renders thusly:

Sep 25, 2017