fast-date-parse


Performant date parsing.

Installation

``bash
npm i fast-date-parse
`

Example

`js
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

$3

Creates a new parser.

The parser ignores all non-token characters.

$3

Parses the dateString and returns a date object.

Benchmark

`bash
$ 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