README.md

fast-date-parse

Performant date parsing.

Installation

npm i fast-date-parse

Example

const DateParser = require('fast-date-parse')

const parser = new DateParser('YYYY-MM-DD')

parser.parse('2018-09-02')

Tokens

Supported tokens:

Token	Example	Description
YYYY	2018	Year
MM	01..12	Month
HH	00..23	Hours (24 hour time)
DD	01..31	Day of month
mm	00..59	Minutes
ss	00..59	Seconds
SSS	000..999	Milliseconds

API

DateParser(datePattern)

Creates a new parser.

The parser ignores all non-token characters.

DateParser#parse(dateString)

Parses the dateString and returns a date object.

Benchmark

$ node benchmark/benchmark.js
moment x 73,592 ops/sec ±1.75% (90 runs sampled)
fast-date-parse x 1,727,745 ops/sec ±1.09% (87 runs sampled)
fecha x 98,347 ops/sec ±1.74% (84 runs sampled)
Fastest is fast-date-parse

License

MIT