helper-date

Format dates with date.js and moment.js. Uses date.js to parse human readable date phrases, and moment to format the rendered output. Should work with any Handlebars, Lo-Dash, underscore, or any template engine that allows helper functions to be registered. Also compatible with verb, assemble and Template.

Examples

With Handlebars:

{{date "5 years ago" "YYYY"}}
//=> 2010

With Lo-Dash or Underscore:

<%= date("5 years ago", "YYYY") %>
//=> 2010

With Verb (lo-dash, with special delimiters to avoid delimiter collision in markdown docs):

{%= date('5 years ago', 'YYYY') %}
//=> 2010

Install with npm

npm i helper-date --save

Run tests

npm test

Register the helper

This should work with any engine, here are a few examples

template

Register the helper for use with any template engine

template.helper('date', require('helper-date'));

assemble

To register the helper for use with assemble v0.6.x:

assemble.helper('date', require('helper-date'));

verb

Register the helper for use with verb:

var verb = require('verb');
verb.helper('date', require('helper-date'));

verb.task('default', function() {
  verb.src('.verb*.md')
    .pipe(verb.dest('./'));
});

handlebars

var handlebars = require('handlebars');
handlebars.registerHelper('date', require('helper-date'));

Usage

{{date "5 years ago" "YYYY"}}

Lo-Dash or underscore

// as a mixin
_.mixin({date: dateHelper});
_.template('<%= _.date("5 years ago", "YYYY") %>', {});
//=> 2010

// passed on the context
_.template('<%= date("5 years ago", "YYYY") %>', {date: dateHelper});
//=> 2010

// as an import
var settings = {imports: {date: dateHelper}};
_.template('<%= date("5 years ago", "YYYY") %>', {}, settings);
//=> 2010

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue

To request or contribute a helper to the github.com/helpers org, please read this contributing guide to get started.

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/helpers
• twitter/helpers

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Jon Schlinkert
Released under the MIT license

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This file was generated by verb on February 17, 2015.