time-ago-pipe

A really simple, lightweight Angular pipe for converting a date string into a time ago

|Time Range|Output| |---|---| |0 - 45 seconds | a few seconds ago | |45 - 90 seconds | a minute ago | |90 seconds - 45 minutes | X minutes ago | |45 - 90 minutes | an hour ago | |90 minutes - 22 hours | X hours ago | |22 - 36 hours | a day ago | |36 hours - 25 days | X days ago | |25 - 45 days | a month ago | |45 - 345 days | X months ago | |345 - 545 days (1.5 years) | a year ago | |546 days+ | X years ago |

Installation

npm install time-ago-pipe --save

Usage

It can be imported into your angular project, as you would for any other library.

In the @NgModule you want to use it in

import {TimeAgoPipe} from 'time-ago-pipe';

add "TimeAgoPipe" to your declarations

@NgModule({
	imports: [... etc ...],
	declarations: [..., TimeAgoPipe, ... ]
})

In your component templates you can just do:

<span>{{your_date | timeAgo}}</span>

where "your_date" is a local date string, which could be parsed by the standard Js Date()

If this value is null or not parsable as a date, then the pipe will display nothing