dates-range

Install

npm install --save dates-range

Example

var dateRange = require('dates-range');

var dates = dateRange(new Date('January 1, 2000'), new Date('January 11 2016'));

for(var day of dates){
    console.log(day + ' quarter ' + day.quarter);
    console.log(day.month + ' '+day.day + ' ' + day.year);
}

Iterations

Each iteration of the loop produces a CurrentDay object.

CurrentDay

Properties of CurrentDay

• day (Day of the month.)
• year
• month (Month object)
• dayOfWeek (DayOfWeek object)
• dayOfYear
• quarter (The Financial Quarter)
• iso (The ISO date string)
• date (The instance of Date)

day.toString() -> string

An instance of CurrentDay in a string context returns the same as:

day.month + ' ' + day.day + ', ' + day.year;

Month

Properties of Month

• number
• name (The English name of the month)
• short (The abbreviation for the month)

month.toString() -> string

dates.month returns an object, but in string contexts returns the month name.

var dates = dateRange(new Date('January 1, 2000'), new Date('January 11 2016'));

for(var day of dates){
    //day.month.toString gets called printing the month name
    console.log(day.month + ' '+day.day + ' ' + day.year);
}

DayOfWeek

Properties of DayOfWeek

• number
• name (The English name of the day of the week.)
• short (The abbreviation for the day of the week.)

dayOfWeek.toString() -> string

dates.dayOfWeek returns an object, but in string contexts returns the day of week name.

var dates = dateRange(new Date('January 1, 2000'), new Date('January 11 2016'));

for(var day of dates){
    //print the day of the week
    console.log(day.dayOfWeek + ' ');
}

About

The object returned from calling require('dates-range')() is truly just for iteration.

Really you can't do anything else with it. Maybe you can call dates.next, or mash together a larger iterator with a generator function using yield dates.

Getting info with properties can be fast as the getters are synchronously lazy calling internal Date methods only when you need them.

The for of syntax is standard, but only supported by a few environments with, or without flags. Use at your own risk.

Happy coding. :)