mininow - a super tiny fromnow date formatter

npm install --save mininow

• i18n support
• small and normal formats (1y/1 year)
• extremely tiny, weighs 0.5 kb minified and gzipped
• zero dependencies
• supports future/past contexts (ago/in)
• takes unix/string/date

examples

const fromnow = require("mininow");

console.log(fromnow(1461077213)) // 30 seconds ago

console.log(fromnow(1461077213), true) // 30s

console.log(fromnow("2018.08.12", true)) // 2y

console.log(fromnow(new Date("2018.08.12"))) // in 2 years

console.log(fromnow(new Date("2018.08.12"), true)) // 2y

module.export

Returns a formatted readable string

Parameters

• time Number or String or Object unix number, string or date obj
• small Number or Boolean minify the formatted string
• i18n Object the i18n object, standard to momentjs

Returns String

i18n Object

The i18n object formatters

var i18n_fromnow = {
  small: {
    future: "%s", past: "%s", s:  "s", m:  "1m",
    mm: "%dm", h:  "1h", hh: "%dh", d:  "1d",
    dd: "%dd", M:  "1m", MM: "%dm", y:  "1y",
    yy: "%dy"
  },
  normal: {
    future: "in %s", past: "%s ago", s:  "seconds", m:  "a minute",
    mm: "%d minutes", h:  "an hour", hh: "%d hours", d:  "a day",
    dd: "%d days", M:  "a month", MM: "%d months", y:  "a year",
    yy: "%d years"
  }
};

console.log(fromnow(new Date(), 1, i18n_fromnow));