@fav/type.format-date

Converts a date to a string in various date formats.

"fav" is an abbreviation of "favorite" and also the acronym of "for all versions". This package is intended to support all Node.js versions and many browsers as possible. At least, this package supports Node.js >= v0.10 and major Web browsers: Chrome, Firefox, IE11, Edge, Vivaldi and Safari.

Install

To install from npm:

$ npm install --save @fav/type.format-date

NOTE: npm < 2.7.0 does not support scoped package, but old version Node.js supports it. So when you use such older npm, you should download this package from github.com, and move it in node_modules/@fav/type.format-date/ directory manually.

Usage

For Node.js:

var formatDate = require('@fav/type.format-date');
var formatMMDD = formatDate('MM/DD');
formatMMDD(new Date(2017, 10, 5)); // => '11/05'

var formatCustom = formatDate('YYYY/MM/DD (Week)', {
  Week: function(date) {
    return ['日', '月', '火', '水', '木', '金', '土'][date.getDay()]
  },
});
formatCustom(new Date(2018, 4, 30)); // => '2018/05/30 (水)'

For Web browsers:

<script src="fav.type.format-date.min.js"></script>
<script>
var formatDate = fav.type.formatDate;
var formatMMDD = formatDate('MM/DD');
formatMMDD(new Date(2017, 10, 5)); // => '11/05'
</script>

API

formatDate(format [, opts]) : function

Creates a date format function which convert a date to a string in the specified format.

Conversion of each element field in format can be customized with the parameter opts, which is a plain object of which keys are field characters and of which values are converting functions.

Parameters:

Date element fields:

Returns:

A formatted string which represents the specified date.

Type: string

Checked

Node.js (4〜)

io.js (1〜3)

Node.js (〜0.12)

Web browsers

License

Copyright (C) 2017-2018 Takayuki Sato

This program is free software under MIT License. See the file LICENSE in this distribution for more details.