moment-business-days

What is moment-business-days?

The moment-business-days npm package extends the Moment.js library to handle business days calculations. It allows you to perform operations like adding or subtracting business days, checking if a date is a business day, and customizing business days and holidays.

What are moment-business-days's main functionalities?

Add Business Days

This feature allows you to add a specified number of business days to a date. In this example, 5 business days are added to October 1, 2023.

const moment = require('moment-business-days');
let date = moment('2023-10-01');
let newDate = date.businessAdd(5);
console.log(newDate.format('YYYY-MM-DD'));

Subtract Business Days

This feature allows you to subtract a specified number of business days from a date. In this example, 3 business days are subtracted from October 10, 2023.

const moment = require('moment-business-days');
let date = moment('2023-10-10');
let newDate = date.businessSubtract(3);
console.log(newDate.format('YYYY-MM-DD'));

Check if a Date is a Business Day

This feature allows you to check if a given date is a business day. In this example, it checks if October 7, 2023, is a business day.

const moment = require('moment-business-days');
let date = moment('2023-10-07');
let isBusinessDay = date.isBusinessDay();
console.log(isBusinessDay);

Custom Business Days and Holidays

This feature allows you to customize the business days and holidays. In this example, it sets the working weekdays to Monday through Friday and adds holidays on December 25, 2023, and January 1, 2023. Then it adds 1 business day to December 24, 2023.

const moment = require('moment-business-days');
moment.updateLocale('us', {
  workingWeekdays: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
  holidays: ['2023-12-25', '2023-01-01'],
  holidayFormat: 'YYYY-MM-DD'
});
let date = moment('2023-12-24');
let newDate = date.businessAdd(1);
console.log(newDate.format('YYYY-MM-DD'));

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README

moment-business-days

This is a momentJS plugin that allows you to use only business days (Monday to Friday).

NOTES:

• This plugin is for using in NodeJS
• This plugin is based in this repo