Introduction

A versatile JavaScript library for simplified historical date. "back-in-time" provides an intuitive module that allows developers to effortlessly retrieve past dates from previous years and obtain them in an array with customizable formatting.

Key Features:

- Date Generation: Easily generate past dates by specifying the number of years ago.

-Custom Formatting: Format the output dates according to your application's requirements.

-Date Array: Retrieve dates in an array, enabling efficient batch processing.

-Lightweight: Keep your project dependencies minimal with a lightweight and efficient utility.

About Package ?

backInTime(currentDate, yearsToBack, dateFormat);

Installation

npm install back-in-time

Parameters

| Name | Type | Default | Description | |--------------|----------|----------------|-------------------------| | currentDate | String | - | currentDate paramete is required, this parameter will ensure that from which date you want to reverse to | | yearsToBack | String | - | yearsToBack paramete is required, this parameter will behave like end date where you want to stop | | dateFormat | String | YYYY-MM-DD | dateFormat paramete is Optional, with the help of this parameter you can decide you date fromat when you get output |

Usage

const { backInTime } = require("back-in-time");

const dates = backInTime("2024-01-01", "2022-01-01");
console.log(dates)

Expected Output

[
  '2022-01-01', '2022-02-01',
  '2022-03-01', '2022-04-01',
  '2022-05-01', '2022-06-01',
  '2022-07-01', '2022-08-01',
  '2022-09-01', '2022-10-01',
  '2022-11-01', '2022-12-01',
  '2023-01-01', '2023-02-01',
  '2023-03-01', '2023-04-01',
  '2023-05-01', '2023-06-01',
  '2023-07-01', '2023-08-01',
  '2023-09-01', '2023-10-01',
  '2023-11-01', '2023-12-01',
  '2024-01-01'
]

Supported Date Formats

| Format Code | Date | |---------------|------------------------| | MMMM Do YYYY | January 21st 2024 | | YYYY/MM/DD | 2024/01/21 | | D MMM, YYYY | 21 Jan, 2024 | | dddd, MMMM Do YYYY | Sunday, January 21st 2024 | | ddd, MMM D YYYY | Sun, Jan 21 2024 | | MMMM D, YYYY | January 21, 2024 | | ddd, MMMM D YYYY | Sun, January 21 2024 | | YYYY-MM-DD | 2024-01-21 |