helper-timeago

Date helper for displaying elapsed time in a human-readable format. Can be used as a JavaScript utility or template helper with handlebars, lo-dash or any template engine that supports helper functions.

Install with npm

npm i helper-timeago --save

Usage

var timeago = require('helper-timeago');
timeago(new Date('2/10/1994'))
//=> '20 years ago'

With Lo-Dash or Underscore:

<%= timeago("index.js") %>

With Handlebars:

{{timeago "index.js"}}

With Verb (lo-dash, with special delimiters to avoid delimiter collision in markdown docs):

{%= timeago('index.js') %}

Run tests

npm test

See the tests for actual usage examples.

Register the helper

This should work with any engine, here are a few examples

template

Register the helper for use with any template engine

template.helper('timeago', require('helper-timeago'));

assemble

To register the helper for use with assemble v0.6.x:

assemble.helper('timeago', require('helper-timeago'));

verb

Register the helper for use with verb:

var verb = require('verb');
verb.helper('timeago', require('helper-timeago'));
 
verb.task('default', function() {
  verb.src('.verb*.md')
    .pipe(verb.dest('./'));
});

handlebars

var handlebars = require('handlebars');
handlebars.registerHelper('timeago', require('helper-timeago'));

Lo-Dash or underscore

// as a mixin
_.mixin({timeago: timeagoHelper});
_.template('<%= _.timeago("fixtures/*.js") %>', {});
 
// passed on the context
_.template('<%= timeago("fixtures/*.js") %>', {timeago: timeagoHelper});
 
// as an import
var settings = {imports: {timeago: timeagoHelper}};
_.template('<%= timeago("fixtures/*.js") %>', {}, settings);

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue. To request or contribute a helper to the github.com/helpers org, please read this contributing guide to get started.

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright (c) 2014 Jon Schlinkert
Released under the MIT license

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This file was generated by verb on December 07, 2014. To update, run npm i -g verb && verb.