elm-date-format
A reliable way to format dates with Elm.
Using the elm package
elm package install ryannhg/elm-date-format
What is elm-date-format?
If you're coming from Javascript, you might have heard of MomentJS.
MomentJS is a great library for formatting dates!
elm-date-format has the same formatting options as Moment, but uses Elm's awesome type system to provide human readable names, and catch typos for you at compile time!
No need to remember the difference between mm and MM and M!
A quick example
import Date exposing (Date)
import DateFormat
-- Create a custom formatter
yourFormatter : Date -> String
yourFormatter =
DateFormat.format
[ DateFormat.monthNameFull
, DateFormat.text " "
, DateFormat.dayOfMonthSuffix
, DateFormat.text ", "
, DateFormat.yearNumber
]
-- Using your formatter, format your date as a string!
yourPrettyDate : String
yourPrettyDate =
case Date.fromString "2018-02-05T00:00:00.000" of
Ok date ->
yourFormatter date
Err ->
"This shouldn't happen..."
Would make yourPrettyDate return:
"February 5th, 2018" : String
