Moment.js is a JavaScript package that makes it simple to parse, validate, manipulate, and display date/time in JavaScript. Moment.js allows you to display dates in a human-readable format based on your location. Moment.js can be used in a browser using the script approach. It is also compatible with Node.js and can be installed via npm.
Features of Moment.js:
- Parsing: You can parse the date into the desired format using parsing. Date parsing is possible in the string, object, and array formats. It allows you to clone a moment with the help of moment.clone().
- Manipulation: We can manipulate the Date and Time on the moment object using inbuilt methods provided by Moment.js.
- Date Validation: We can perform date validation using isValid() method provided by Moment.js. It also has various parsing flags to validate dates.
- Date Queries: It has various inbuilt methods to check if the date is greater than or less than the input provided.
- Duration: It is one of the essential features that handles the time length for the given units.
- Display: It provides us with different formats to display date in different ways like JSON, array, object, etc.
Installing Moment.js: We can install moment.js in the following two ways.
Method 1: Go to the official documentation of https://momentjs.com/ and download the latest Moment.js file available and then add the file in script tag inside the head section.
<script type = "text/JavaScript"
src =
" ">https://MomentJS.com/downloads/moment.js">
</script>
Method 2: We can install it using npm. Make sure that you have Node.js and npm installed.
npm install moment
Now let’s understand the working of Moment.js using an example.
Example: In this example, we will get the current time in minutes using Moment.js moment.minute() Method.
index.js
Javascript
// Importing moment moduleconst moment = require('moment');let a = moment().minutes();console.log("minute is: ",a); |
Step to run the application:
Run the index.js file using the below command:
node index.js
Output:
minute is: 24
