➤ Human Pretty Date

human-pretty-date is a Javascript library that helps you collect common and not-so-common informations about your application user.

➤ Installation

Use the package manager npm to install human-pretty-date.

npm i human-pretty-date --save

➤ Usage

If you are using human-pretty-date with Typescript, you can import the package with the import sintax

import * as humanPrettyDate from 'human-pretty-date';

The usage will be like this:

console.log(formatDate(new Date(new Date() - -2 * 365 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000)));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(new Date() - -365 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000)));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(new Date() - -2 * 30 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000)));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(new Date() - -30 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000)));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(new Date() - -2 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000)));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(new Date() - -24 * 60 * 60 * 1000)));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(new Date() - -2 * 60 * 60 * 1000)));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(new Date() - -60 * 60 * 1000)));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(new Date() - -2 * 60 * 1000)));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(new Date() - -60 * 1000)));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(new Date() - -2 * 1000)));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(new Date() - -1 * 1000)));
console.log(formatDate(new Date()));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(new Date() - 1 * 1000)));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(new Date() - 2 * 1000)));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(new Date() - 60 * 1000)));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(new Date() - 2 * 60 * 1000)));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(new Date() - 60 * 60 * 1000)));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(new Date() - 2 * 60 * 60 * 1000)));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(new Date() - 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000)));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(new Date() - 2 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000)));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(new Date() - 30 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000)));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(new Date() - 2 * 30 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000)));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(new Date() - 365 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000)));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(new Date() - 2 * 365 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000)));

This is the complete output:

2 years from now
1 year from now
2 month from now
1 months from now
2 day from now
tomorrow
2 hours from now
1 hour from now
2 minutes from now
1 minute from now
2 seconds from now
1 second from now
just now
1 second ago
2 seconds ago
1 minute ago
2 minutes ago
1 hour ago
2 hours ago
yesterday
2 day ago
1 months ago
2 month ago
1 year ago
2 years ago

➤ i18n

To use the i18n provided by the package, you just need to past the desired locale in the config object:

console.log(formatDate(new Date(), { locale: 'pt_BR' })); // agora

Supported locales

Code	Locale
en	English
pt_BR	Portuguese (Brazil)

➤ Contributors

Caio Rolla
You don't need state management if you use global variables. 🐛

➤ Contributing

Pull requests are welcome, specially for new locales. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

➤ License

MIT

This package is based on node-prettydate