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The date-format npm package is a simple utility for formatting dates in JavaScript. It allows you to format dates in various patterns, making it easier to display dates in a human-readable format or in a specific format required by your application.
Basic Date Formatting
This feature allows you to format a date object into a string with a specified pattern. In this example, the current date is formatted as 'yyyy-MM-dd'.
const dateFormat = require('date-format');
const now = new Date();
console.log(dateFormat('yyyy-MM-dd', now));
Custom Date Formatting
This feature allows you to create custom date formats. In this example, the current time is formatted to show hours, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds.
const dateFormat = require('date-format');
const now = new Date();
console.log(dateFormat('hh:mm:ss.SSS', now));
Predefined Date Formats
This feature provides predefined date formats for common use cases. In this example, the current date and time are formatted in ISO 8601 format.
const dateFormat = require('date-format');
const now = new Date();
console.log(dateFormat.asString(dateFormat.ISO8601_FORMAT, now));
Moment.js is a widely-used library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates in JavaScript. It offers a more extensive set of features compared to date-format, including time zone support and relative time formatting.
date-fns is a modern JavaScript date utility library that provides a comprehensive set of functions for working with dates. It is modular, allowing you to import only the functions you need, which can help reduce bundle size compared to moment.js.
Luxon is a library for working with dates and times in JavaScript. It is built on top of the native JavaScript Date object and provides a more modern API compared to moment.js. Luxon also includes support for time zones and internationalization.
node.js formatting of Date objects as strings. Probably exactly the same as some other library out there.
npm install date-format
var format = require('date-format');
format.asString(new Date()); //defaults to ISO8601 format
format.asString('hh:mm:ss.SSS', new Date()); //just the time
or
var format = require('date-format');
format(new Date());
format('hh:mm:ss.SSS', new Date());
Format string can be anything, but the following letters will be replaced (and leading zeroes added if necessary):
That's it.
FAQs
Formatting Date objects as strings since 2013
The npm package date-format receives a total of 4,273,701 weekly downloads. As such, date-format popularity was classified as popular.
We found that date-format demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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