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A simple package which returns relative human-readable text for any valid date entered. Accepts both JavaScript Date and moment

To install, simply run

npm install relative_date

var RelativeDate = require('relative_date');

console.log(RelativeDate(new Date()).text);
// Output: 1:23am

console.log(RelativeDate(moment().subtract(1, 'day')).text);
//Output: Yesterday

console.log(
  RelativeDate(moment().subtract(Math.floor(Math.random() * 6) + 2, 'd')).text
);
//Output: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday

console.log(RelativeDate(moment(new Date()).subtract(8, 'd')).text);
//Output: 21 May, 2017

console.log(RelativeDate(moment().add(100, 'y')).text);
//Output: 100 years from now

console.log(RelativeDate(moment([2017, 40, 20])).text);
//Output: Invalid Date

The value returned by RelativeDate is an object of this order:

RelativeDate(new Date())

// Returned value
{
    value: date.toISOString(),
    text: String,
    valid: Boolean
}

If the date is invalid, the text returned would be "Invalid Date" and the value would be an Invalid Date object.

You can run tests to check for all the available outcomes, by running yarn test

All issues and feature requests can be raised in the issues section.

ESLint and Prettier are setup to have consistent formatting. Please raise a PR and do not forget to add tests for any cases you might add!

• Customizable format for case 'Date is today'
• Customizable format for case 'Date is a parsed date of format D MMM, YYYY'
• Customizable format for case 'Date is from the future'
• Additional sub-cases for 'Date is today'
  • Option to show texts like, 'a few seconds ago', '1 minute ago', '7 hours ago' etc.
  • Option to show texts like, 'just now', 'about a minute', etc.

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