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date-fns pipes for Angular applications.

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Requirememnts

The latest version of this library requires:

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Installation

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Installation for date-fns v2

⚠️ There's a range of date-fns versions for which tree shaking is broken, so we recommend that you either install v2.16.1 or >= v2.21.1.

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Installation for date-fns v1

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Basic Usage

stackblitz example

import { CommonModule } from '@angular/common';
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { bootstrapApplication } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import 'zone.js';
import { es } from 'date-fns/locale';
import { DateFnsModule } from 'ngx-date-fns';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  standalone: true,
  imports: [CommonModule, DateFnsModule],
  template: `
    <p>{{ dateOne | dfnsFormat: 'MM/dd/yyyy' }}</p>
    <p>{{ [dateOne, dateTwo] | dfnsMin | dfnsFormat: 'EEE LLLL d yyyy' }}</p>
    <p>
      {{ [dateOne, dateTwo] | dfnsMax | dfnsFormat: 'EEE LLLL d yyyy' }}
    </p>
    <p>
      {{ dateThree | dfnsFormatDistanceToNow: options }} - (Explicit 'es'
      locale)
    </p>
    <p>{{ 0 | dfnsWeekdayName: 'full':options }} - (Explicit 'es' locale)</p>
    <p>
      {{
        '12 de Marzo'
          | dfnsParse: parseFormat:parseDate:parseLocale
          | dfnsFormat: 'MM/dd/yyyy'
      }}
    </p>
  `
})
export class App {
  dateOne = new Date(2016, 0, 1);
  dateTwo = new Date(2017, 0, 1);
  dateThree: Date;
  options = {
    locale: es,
    addSuffix: true
  };
  parseDate = new Date(2010, 0, 1);
  parseFormat = `do 'de' MMMM`;
  parseLocale = { locale: es };

  constructor() {
    this.dateThree = new Date();
    this.dateThree.setDate(this.dateThree.getDate() - 6);
  }
}

bootstrapApplication(App);

The output:

01/01/2016
Fri January 1 2016
Sun January 1 2017
hace 6 días - (Explicit 'es' locale)
lunes - (Explicit 'es' locale)
03/12/2010
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Working with locales

All locale-aware pipes use English by default.

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Changing locale globally

Instead of passing the locale to each pipe via options you can set it globally in one single step by overriding the default DateFnsConfiguration implementation:

stackblitz example

// app.config.ts
import { ApplicationConfig } from '@angular/core';
import { DateFnsConfigurationService } from 'ngx-date-fns';
import { fr } from 'date-fns/locale';

const frenchConfig = new DateFnsConfigurationService();
frenchConfig.setLocale(fr);

export const appConfig: ApplicationConfig = {
  providers: [{ provide: DateFnsConfigurationService, useValue: frenchConfig }]
};

// main.ts
import { CommonModule } from '@angular/common';
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { bootstrapApplication } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import 'zone.js';
import { es } from 'date-fns/locale';
import { DateFnsModule } from 'ngx-date-fns';
import { appConfig } from './app.config';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  standalone: true,
  imports: [CommonModule, DateFnsModule],
  template: `
    (...)
  `
})
export class App {
  // (...)
}

bootstrapApplication(App, appConfig).catch(err => console.error(err));
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Changing locale at runtime

It is also possible to change the default locale at runtime:

stackblitz example

import { CommonModule } from '@angular/common';
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { bootstrapApplication } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import 'zone.js';
import { es, de } from 'date-fns/locale';
import { DateFnsConfigurationService, DateFnsModule } from 'ngx-date-fns';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  standalone: true,
  imports: [CommonModule, DateFnsModule],
  template: `
    <p>{{ dateOne | dfnsFormat: 'EEE LLLL d yyyy' }}</p>
    <hr />
    Set default locale to: <a href="#" (click)="changeToGerman()">German</a>,
    <a href="#" (click)="changeToSpanish()">Spanish</a>.
  `
})
export class App {
  dateOne = new Date(2016, 0, 1);
  constructor(public config: DateFnsConfigurationService) {}
  changeToGerman() {
    this.config.setLocale(de);
  }
  changeToSpanish() {
    this.config.setLocale(es);
  }
}

bootstrapApplication(App);
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Pure or impure?

Should I use the pure or impure version of the locale-aware pipes?

The answer is quite simple:

The main difference is that pure pipes do not get notified when the locale is changed via DateFnsConfiguration.setLocale(locale: Locale), because the instance is not kept in memory. Impure pipes, on the other hand, are kept in memory and listen for Locale change notifications, which adds some memory and performance overhead.

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Available pipes

All pipes are pure unless stated otherwise.

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Misc

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Format

Since v7.0.0 invalid Dates will return an empty string instead of throwing an exception.

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Get

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Difference

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Add

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Subtract

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End

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Start

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Last Day Of

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Is...?

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Utils

A collection of utilities built around date-fns functions.

dfnsFormatRelativeToNow

This pipe is (impure), but there's the pure version dfnsFormatRelativeToNowPure too.

Same as dfnsFormatRelative but the date to comapre against is always Date.now().

dfnsWeekdayName

This pipe is (impure)

Given a weekday number, returns its name.

@param WeekdayNameFormat

Optional weekday format. Allowed values are:

Defaults to full.

@param Locale

Optional date-fns Locale object.

Optional locale object.

Basic example

<div>
  <!-- Prints Monday -->
  {{ 0 | dfnsWeekdayName }}
</div>
<div>
  <!-- Prints Mon -->
  {{ 0 | dfnsWeekdayName : 'x3' }}
</div>