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helper-dateformat

Template helper for adding formatted dates using node-dateformat. Works with Handlebars, Lo-Dash, underscore, or any template engine that supports helper functions. Also compatible with verb, assemble and Template.

Install

Install with npm:

$ npm install --save helper-dateformat

See node-dateformat for all available options.

Usage

This helper should work with any template engine, or as a javascript utility.

var dateformat = require('helper-dateformat');
console.log(dateformat('today'));
//=> December 24, 2016

handlebars usage

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

Usage

{{dateformat "MMMM DD, YYYY"}}

lodash and underscore usage

var helper = require('helper-dateformat');

// as a mixin
_.mixin({dateformat: helper});
_.template('<%= dateformat("MMMM DD, YYYY") %>', {});

// passed on the context
_.template('<%= dateformat("MMMM DD, YYYY") %>', {dateformat: helper});

// as an import
var settings = {imports: {dateformat: helper}};
_.template('<%= dateformat("MMMM DD, YYYY") %>', {}, settings);

templates usage

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

assemble usage

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

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

verb usage

In verbfile.js:

module.exports = function(verb) {
  verb.helper('dateformat', require('helper-dateformat'));

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

Templates:

{%= dateformat("MMMM DD, YYYY") %}

About

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Contributing

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

Building docs

(This document was generated by verb-generate-readme (a verb generator), please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in .verb.md.)

To generate the readme and API documentation with verb:

$ npm install -g verb verb-generate-readme && verb

Running tests

Install dev dependencies:

$ npm install -d && npm test

Author

Jon Schlinkert

License

This file was generated by verb-generate-readme, v0.2.0, on December 25, 2016.