fast-date-parse

Performant date parsing.

Installation

npm i fast-date-parse

Example

const DateParser = require('fast-date-parse')

const parser = new DateParser('YYYY-MM-DD')

parser.parse('2018-09-02')

Tokens

Supported tokens:

| Token | Example | Description | | ------------- | ------------------ |---------------------- | | YYYY | 2018 | Year | | MM | 01..12 | Month | | HH | 00..23 | Hours (24 hour time) | | DD | 01..31 | Day of month | | mm | 00..59 | Minutes | | ss | 00..59 | Seconds | | SSS | 000..999 | Milliseconds |

API

DateParser(datePattern)

Creates a new parser.

The parser ignores all non-token characters.

DateParser#parse(dateString)

Parses the dateString and returns a date object.

Benchmark

$ node benchmark/benchmark.js
moment x 73,592 ops/sec ±1.75% (90 runs sampled)
fast-date-parse x 1,727,745 ops/sec ±1.09% (87 runs sampled)
fecha x 98,347 ops/sec ±1.74% (84 runs sampled)
Fastest is fast-date-parse

License

MIT