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npm install time-humanizer



> A lightweight utility to humanize time intervals and durations, making them easier to understand for your users. Supports both CommonJS and ESM.
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- Human-Readable Time: Turn durations into easy-to-read strings like 5 minutes ago or in 3 days.
- Flexible Options: Customize output formats, thresholds, and more.
- Multi-Language Support: Coming Soon!
- Lightweight: Minimal dependencies and blazing-fast performance.
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Install the package via npm or yarn:
``bashUsing npm
npm install time-humanizer
📜 License
This project is licensed under the MIT License
🙌 Contributing
Contributions are welcome! Please check out our Contributing Guide for more details.
1. Fork the repo.
2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature.
3. Commit your changes: git commit -m "Add some amazing feature".
4. Push to the branch: git push origin feature/amazing-feature.
5. Open a pull request.
📖 Usage
Time Humanizer provides a simple API for humanizing time durations:
Example
`ts
import { humanizeDuration } from 'time-humanizer';// Past durations
console.log(humanizeDuration(-60000)); // Output: "1 minute ago"
// Future durations
console.log(humanizeDuration(3600000)); // Output: "in 1 hour"
// Custom thresholds
console.log(humanizeDuration(900000, { threshold: 15 })); // Output: "15 minutes ago"
`⚙️ API
`ts
humanizeDuration(duration: number, options?: HumanizerOptions): string
``Parameters:
• duration: Time in milliseconds (negative for past, positive for future).
• options (optional):
• threshold (number): Adjusts precision for output.
• locale (string): Language to display (default: en).
• format (string): Customize time string format.