TimestampDate

TimestampDate is a simple date-timestamp tool provided by Anchor Solutions to convert dates, string dates and timestamps in JavaScript objects to/from JS Date object. It can recursively parse the object document tree presented to locate each timestamp or date values and then convert to the expected type.

Installation

Install timestamp-date via npm by running the following command:

npm install timestamp-date --save

Usage

Create and instance and call available methods from the instance created.

import { TimestampDate } from 'timestamp-date';

const timestampDate = new TimestampDate();

Use TimestampDate utilities functions

// converts all timestamp in doc to js date
const doc = {
  a: {},
  b: {
    c: [
      d: <Timestamp>
    ],
    e: <Timestamp>
  }
};

const updated = this.timestampService.parseTimestampToDate(doc);

console.log(doc, updated);

Methods

| Method Name | Params | Return type | Description | |-------------|---------|-------------|----------------------------------------------------| | getServerTimestamp | | Timestamp | Gets current timestamp value representative from firebase.| |getServerDate||Date|Gets current date value from firebase| | timestampToDate | Timestamp | Date | Converts timestamp object to date object | | dateToTimestamp | Date | Timestamp | Converts JS date object to timestamp | | parseTimestampToDate<T, R> | | | Recursively iterates through properties of a JS object and converts all occurences of timestamp to normal JS Date| | parseDateToTimestamp<T, R> | | | Recursively iterates through properties of a JS object and converts all occurences of JS Date to timestamp object| | parseStringToDate<T, R> | | | Recursively iterates through properties of a JS object and converts all occurences of valid date string values to JavaScript Date objects| | parseDateToString<T, R> | | | Recursively iterates through properties of a JS object and converts all occurences of JS Date to date strings types.|

Further Reading

Have a look at other packages by Anchor Solutions:

• Pincode
• translator-client-module
• MatModal