TimestampDate
TimestampDate is a simple date-timestamp tool provided by Anchor Solutions to convert dates, string dates and timestamps in JavaScript objects to/from JS Date object. It can recursively parse the object document tree presented to locate each timestamp or date values and then convert to the expected type.
Installation
Install timestamp-date via npm by running the following command:
npm install timestamp-date --save
Usage
Create and instance and call available methods from the instance created.
import { TimestampDate } from 'timestamp-date';
const timestampDate = new TimestampDate();Use TimestampDate utilities functions
// converts all timestamp in doc to js date
const doc = {
a: {},
b: {
c: [
d: <Timestamp>
],
e: <Timestamp>
}
};
const updated = this.timestampService.parseTimestampToDate(doc);
console.log(doc, updated);Methods
| Method Name | Params | Return type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| getServerTimestamp | Timestamp | Gets current timestamp value representative from firebase. | |
| getServerDate | Date | Gets current date value from firebase | |
| timestampToDate | Timestamp | Date | Converts timestamp object to date object |
| dateToTimestamp | Date | Timestamp | Converts JS date object to timestamp |
| parseTimestampToDate<T, R> | Recursively iterates through properties of a JS object and converts all occurences of timestamp to normal JS Date | ||
| parseDateToTimestamp<T, R> | Recursively iterates through properties of a JS object and converts all occurences of JS Date to timestamp object | ||
| parseStringToDate<T, R> | Recursively iterates through properties of a JS object and converts all occurences of valid date string values to JavaScript Date objects | ||
| parseDateToString<T, R> | Recursively iterates through properties of a JS object and converts all occurences of JS Date to date strings types. |
Further Reading
Have a look at other packages by Anchor Solutions: