vue2-timeago

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👉 vue-compose-timeago

• Localization supported
• Show tooltip
• Auto refresh time
• When time refresh call a customizable function
• Formats a date/timestamp to:
  • just now
  • 5m
  • 3h
  • 2 days ago
  • 2017-08-03
• Rules:
  • less than 1 minute , show just now
  • 1 minute ~ 1 hour , show ** minutes ago
  • 1 hour ~ 1 day , show ** hours ago
  • 1 day ~ 1 month( 31 days ) , show ** days ago
  • more than 1 month( 31 days ) , show yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm

Navigation

• Changelog
• Installation
• Usage
• Examples
• Props
• Contributions

Live Demo

Installation

Get from npm / yarn:

npm i vue2-timeago

yarn add vue2-timeago

or just include vue2-timeago.js to your view like

<script src='https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vue2-timeago@1.2.3/dist/vue2-timeago.js'></script>

Usage

Use this inside your app:

import TimeAgo from 'vue2-timeago'

export default {
  name: 'app',
  components: {
    TimeAgo,
  }
}

With Default CSS

You don't need include for version >= "1.2.2"

import 'vue2-timeago/dist/vue2-timeago.css'

or just include vue2-timeago.css

HTML

<time-ago :refresh="60" :datetime="new Date(2018, 7, 4, 0, 24, 0)" locale="zh_TW" tooltip></time-ago>

Examples

1. locale

Default locale is en, and the library supports en and zh_TW.

<time-ago locale="en"></time-ago> 
<time-ago :locale="locale"></time-ago> use v-bind

export default {
  ...
  data(){
    return{
      locale:"zh_TW",
    }
  },
  ...

2. datetime

<time-ago datetime="2018-08-03 15:47:00"></time-ago> 
<time-ago :datetime="new Date(2018, 7, 4, 0, 24, 0)"></time-ago> use v-bind
<time-ago :datetime="1533286641826"></time-ago> timestamp

• Note. Don't bind with new Date() when you use refresh property. Because every time refresh will get a new date value.

  <time-ago :datetime="new Date(2018, 7, 4, 0, 24, 0)"></time-ago>  --> OK
  <time-ago refresh :datetime="new Date()"></time-ago> --> not OK

  If you want use new Date() , just remove datetime property.

  <time-ago refresh></time-ago>

3. refresh

<time-ago refresh></time-ago> Boolean , default refresh time 60/s
<time-ago :refresh="3600"></time-ago> bind value with a number

4. tooltip

• Base on v-tooltip, you can use placement attribute that are allowed in v-tooltip.

<time-ago tooltip></time-ago> Show tooltip 
<time-ago tooltip="right"></time-ago> Set placement

5. long

<time-ago :datetime="datetime"></time-ago> show : 2d
<time-ago :datetime="datetime" long></time-ago> show : 2 days ago

6. todo

You can do something when time refresh every time

<time-ago :refresh="1" :locale="locale" :todo="()=> count+=1"></time-ago>

7. native event

<time-ago @click.native="todo"><time-ago/>

Props

Property	Type	Default	Description
datetime	Date, String, Number	new Date()	The datetime to be formatted.
locale	String	en	message language
refresh	Boolean, Number	false	The period to update the component, in seconds. When true it will be 60s. Also you can bind a number.
long	Boolean	false	Show long string with time message . ex. 3h -> 3 hours age
tooltip	Boolean, String	false	Show tooltip.
todo	Function	false	You can call a function when time refresh every time.

Contributions

locale translations: The component needs more locale translations. You can Open an issue to write the locale translations, or submit a pull request. See example here.

locale support list :

• English ( en )
• 繁體中文 ( zh_TW )
• 简体中文 ( zh_CN )
• 日本語 ( jp )
• Portugal(Brazil) ( pt_BR )
• Spain ( es )
• Arabia ( ar )
• French ( fr )
• Polish ( pl )
• Turkish ( tr )

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