JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground
HTML
<div class="deployDate">2018-10-26</div>
JavaScript
var NoHyphens = deployDate2.replace(/-/g,"/");
document.getElementById("deployDate").value = NoHyphens;
/* var text = $('.string').html().replace(',','').split(' ');
$('.string').text(text[1] + ' ' + text[0] + ' ' + text[2]); */