Merry Timeline

A library for displaying hourly data. This is used for displaying precipitation forecasts at merrysky.net

Setup

npm i merry-timeline

Example

import timeline from "merry-timeline";

const data = [
  { "time": 1671080400, "color": "#333333", "text": "Sleep" },
  { "time": 1671084000, "color": "#333333", "text": "Sleep" },
  { "time": 1671087600, "color": "#333333", "text": "Sleep" },
  { "time": 1671091200, "color": "#333333", "text": "Sleep" },
  { "time": 1671094800, "color": "#333333", "text": "Sleep" },
  { "time": 1671098400, "color": "#333333", "text": "Sleep" },
  { "time": 1671102000, "color": "#b6bfcb", "text": "Drowse" },
  { "time": 1671105600, "color": "#b6bfcb", "text": "Drowse" },
  { "time": 1671109200, "color": "#FFDEAD", "text": "School" },
  { "time": 1671112800, "color": "#FFDEAD", "text": "School" },
  { "time": 1671116400, "color": "#FFDEAD", "text": "School" },
  { "time": 1671120000, "color": "#FFDEAD", "text": "School" },
  { "time": 1671123600, "color": "#E6E6FA", "text": "Lunch" },
  { "time": 1671127200, "color": "#FFDEAD", "text": "School" },
  { "time": 1671130800, "color": "#FFDEAD", "text": "School" },
  { "time": 1671134400, "color": "#FFDEAD", "text": "School" },
  { "time": 1671138000, "color": "#E6E6FA", "text": "Home" },
  { "time": 1671141600, "color": "#E6E6FA", "text": "Home" },
  { "time": 1671145200, "color": "#e4000f", "text": "🕹 Play Nintendo" },
  { "time": 1671148800, "color": "#e4000f", "text": "🕹 Play Nintendo" },
  { "time": 1671152400, "color": "#e4000f", "text": "🕹 Play Nintendo" },
  { "time": 1671156000, "color": "#e4000f", "text": "🕹 Play Nintendo" },
  { "time": 1671159600, "color": "#333333", "text": "Sleep" },
  { "time": 1671163200, "color": "#333333", "text": "Sleep" }
]


const exampleDiv = document.createElement("div");
const options = { timezone: "America/Toronto" };
timeline(exampleDiv, hourly, options);

Data is a list where each item contain those attributes:

• time : time in seconds, beginning of the hour
• color : background color of the stripe
• text : text overlay above the stripe

Browse examples for usage

Options

• timezone timezone to format the timestamp at. if not provided, uses the user's timezone
• width fixed width of the timeline, otherwise it's responsive

Acknowledgement

The visuals were very much inspired by darksky's forecasting day of precipitations. Going forward, since it is shutting down, this library allows others to benefit from this timeline representation with ease and configuration.