cDate Formatting

Classic Date Formatting for JavaScript

This npm module focuses on the date formatting of the new Date() JS object. It parses the result to a legible string state for both data manipulation and display.

Usage & Installation

To use this module install it with either npm

$ npm i cdate-formatting

Or yarn

$ yarn add cdate-formatting

To use cdate, import it to your project

import cdate from 'cdate-formatting';

const date = cdate();
// returns 'Feb 24 2020' as a string 

By default, cdate will return the current date in format mm/dd/yy, you can pass the function a string specifying the date order; it supports:

• mm/dd/yy
• dd/mm/yy
• yy/mm/dd
• yy/dd/mm

You can also specify if you want a compact date and the full date passing an object with the attributes compact & fullDate as booleans.

const nonCompactDate = cdate('mm/dd/yy', { compact: false, fullDate: false });
// February 24 2020

const compactFullDate = cdate('mm/dd/yy', { compact: true, fullDate: true });
// Mon, Feb 24 2020

const nonCompactFullDate = cdate('mm/dd/yy', { compact: false, fullDate: true });
// Monday, February 24 2020

Additionally, you can specify a custom date to parse with the same format passing a instanceof Date; the default parameter of this option will parse the current date:

const dateUnspecified = cdate('mm/dd/yy', { compact: true, fullDate: false });
// Feb 24 2020

const dateSpecified = cdate('mm/dd/yy', { compact: true, fullDate: false }, new Date (2019, 10, 15));
// Nov 15 2019

If either the format of the date, the options are wrong in some way, or the date variable is not a valid instance of Date or an invalid date, cdate will return undefined.

Created by:

Carlos Sol: @FSolM