@bitty/format-date

@bitty/format-date is a small library (around 400 B when gziped & minified) to format JavaScript Date object using same tokens as moment.

• 📦 Distributions in ESM, CommonJS, UMD and UMD minified formats.

• ⚡ Lightweight:

  • Weighs around 0.4KB (min + gzip).

• 🔋 Bateries included:

  • No dependencies.
  • Its not based on newer browser's APIs or es2015+ features.

• 🏷 Safe:

  • JSDocs and type declarations for IDEs and editor's autocomplete/intellisense.
  • Made with TypeScript as strict as possible.
  • Unit tests with AVA.

Installation

This library is published in the NPM registry and can be installed using any compatible package manager.

npm install @bitty/format-date --save

# For Yarn, use the command below.
yarn add @bitty/format-date

Installation from CDN

This module has a UMD bundle available through JSDelivr and Unpkg CDNs.

<!-- For UNPKG use the code below. -->
<script src="https://unpkg.com/@bitty/format-date"></script>

<!-- For JSDelivr use the code below. -->
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@bitty/format-date"></script>

<script>
  // UMD module is exposed through the "isNullish" global function.
  console.log(formatDate);
  //=> "[Function: formatDate]"

  console.log(formatDate(new Date(), 'YYYY-MM-DD'));
  //=> "2020-06-14"
</script>

Usage

@bitty/format-date exports a function to format JavaScript Date object using moment tokens.

import formatDate from '@bitty/format-date';

formatDate(new Date(), 'DD/MM/YYYY HH [hours] [and] mm [minutes].');
// I'm escaping "hours", "and" and "minutes" using same syntax as Moment.js.

Tokens

Right now this lib supports the tokens below.

License

Released under MIT License.