time-ago-pipe

time-ago-pipe

A really simple, lightweight Angular 2 pipe to convert a date/time into a string saying how long ago from now it was.

Time Range	Output
0 - 45 seconds	a few seconds ago
45 - 90 seconds	a minute ago
90 seconds - 45 minutes	X minutes ago
45 - 90 minutes	an hour ago
90 minutes - 22 hours	X hours ago
22 - 36 hours	a day ago
36 hours - 25 days	X days ago
25 - 45 days	a month ago
45 - 345 days	X months ago
345 - 545 days (1.5 years)	a year ago
546 days+	X years ago
##Installation
npm install time-ago-pipe --save

Usage

In your component templates you can just do:

<span>{{your_date | timeAgo}}</span>

where "your_date" is something, which could be parsed by the standard Js Date()

---

It can be imported into your angular project, as you would for any other library.

The d.ts files are included, so typings should be picked up automatically :+1:

SystemJS

in your system config file:

map: {
    'time-ago-pipe':'node_modules/time-ago-pipe',
    etc
}

packages: {
    'time-ago-pipe': {main: 'time-ago-pipe.js'},
    etc
}

Then in the @NgModule you want to use it in

import {TimeAgoPipe} from 'time-ago-pipe

& add "TimeAgoPipe" to your declarations

@NgModule({
	imports: [... etc ...],
	declarations: [AppComponent, ...etc..., TimeAgoPipe],
	bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})