Moment.js Twitter Plugin

To format dates like Twitter, nodes have an external npm module, moment.twitter.js which is an extension of moment.js. 

This package can be installed by using the following command:

npm install moment-twitter

moment.twitter.js has two different methods as listed below:

1. twitterLong() Method: It is used for long date formatting like in Web-based Twitter (n hours)

Syntax:

moment().twitterLong()

Parameters: This method does not accept any parameters.

Return Value: This method returns web-based Twitter dates.

The below examples will demonstrate moment.twitterLong() method.

Example 1:

Javascript

const moment = require('moment-twitter');

// Formats time relative to current time
// Adding 10 hours
hours = moment(moment() + (36e5 * 10))
console.log(hours.twitterLong())

// Adding 1 hour
hours = moment(moment() + (36e5 * 1))
console.log(hours.twitterLong())

Output:

10 hrs
1 hr

Example 2:

Javascript

const moment = require('moment-twitter');

// When time is greater than 24 hours,
// output will be in dates
hours = moment(moment() + (6048e5 * 1))
console.log(hours.twitterLong())

Output:

Aug 8

2. moment().twitter() Method: It is used for mobile like Twitter dates (nh). It is an alias for moment().twitterShort().

Syntax:

moment().twitterLong()

Parameters: This method does not accept any parameters.

Return Value: This method returns mobile-based Twitter dates.

The below examples will demonstrate the moment.twitter() method.

Example 1:

Javascript

const moment = require('moment-twitter');

// Output will be in units and
// single character.
hours = moment(moment() + (36e5 * 7))
console.log(hours.twitter())

Output:

7h

Example 2:

Javascript

const moment = require('moment-twitter');

// When time is greater than 24 hours
hours = moment(moment() + (256e5 * 7))
console.log(hours.twitter())

Output:

2d

Reference: https://momentjs.com/docs/#/plugins/twitter/