Humanize dates making readable in locale and ultra lightweight
npm install @videsk/humanize-dateThis library was designed to handle dates and returns readable formats for humans.
Humanize Date not have any dependency, because use native ES6 methods to parse and convert dates to string for be easy readable.
By default, is adapted to locate the language format of user, so never need worry about use i18n or languages tree shaking. Humanize Date use navigator.language as parameter of native method as toLocaleDateString and Intl.RelativeTimeFormat.
So, what do you need? Two dates :)
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NOTICE: You'll need add polyfill in Safari with previous of the version 14.
SUGGESTION: Add Int from https://polyfill.io/
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`shell`
npm i @videsk/humanize-date
It's simple:
`js`
new HumanizeDate()...
This returns the date you pass as parameter, will be readable for the user in their local language (browser).
`js`
new HumanizeDate().toLocale(date1);
// Output
March 01, 2021
This returns the relative time in readable units you set as parameter as the result of difference of dates .
`js`
new HumanizeDate().dates(date1, date2).ago('days');
// Ouput
3 days ago
new HumanizeDate().dates(date1, date2).within('days');
// Output
in 3 days
Also, you will be able to modify the default options passing the second parameter. The available options can you check here.
Also, you can get easily the difference between two dates based on the unit.
`js`
new HumanizeDate().dates(date1, date2).minutes();
The available units are: seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, quarters and years`. So you can use it with relative time methods and to get the difference.
LGPL-2.1 developed by Videsk.