Format JavaScript Date Strings – format-date

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Description:

format-date is a super tiny (~0.4kb) JavaScript library to format JavaScript date() strings using custom Date and Time patterns:

• YY: 20
• YYYY: 2020
• M: 7
• MM: 07
• D: 1
• DD: 01
• H: 1
• HH: 01
• m: 1
• mm: 01
• s: 1
• ss: 01
• *: Escape

How to use it:

1. Install the format-date.

# Yarn
$ yarn add @bitty/format-date
# NPM
$ npm i @bitty/format-date --save

2. Import the format-date as a module.

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

3. Or from a CDN.

<script type="module">
  import formatDate from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@bitty/format-date@latest/dist/format-date.esm.js';
</script>

4. Format a date and determine the Date and Time patterns as follows:

formatDate(new Date(), 'YYYY-MM-DD-HH-mm-ss')
=> 2020-07-23-13-55-00