DATE LIB

date lib is a date formatting library in Typescript

Installation

npm i @michaelcj/datelib

Usage

Short date formatting

# returns a short date with format 'Returns unformatted date in the form of [day month year]' ex 18 Jun 2022
import { getShortDate } from "@michaelcj/datelib";
<p>{getShortDate(new Date(2018, 11, 24, 10, 33, 30, 0))}</p>
# returns '24 Dec 2018'

# returns a short date with format 'Returns unformatted date in the form of [weekday day month year]' ex Monday 18 Jun 2022
import { getShortDateWithDay } from "@michaelcj/datelib";
<p>{getShortDateWithDay(new Date(2018, 11, 24, 10, 33, 30, 0))}</p>
# returns 'Monday 24 Dec 2018'

Relative time to now

# Returns time from or to a date in the format [x day|month|minutes|years from|to) now] ex 10 minutes ago | 10 years ago
import { getTimeFrameFromNow } from "@michaelcj/datelib";
<p>{getTimeFrameFromNow(new Date(2018, 11, 24, 10, 33, 30, 0))}</p>
# returns '4 years ago'

Localisation

Locale can be passed as an argument to each function. Current supported are EN and ES Passing nothing will default to EN