Angular - Use pipes in services and components

Question

In AngularJS, I am able to use filters (pipes) inside of services and controllers using syntax similar to this:

$filter(\'date\')(myDate, \'yyyy-MM-dd\');
         


        

Answer 1

As of Angular 6 you can import formatDate from @angular/common utility to use inside the components.

It was intruduced at https://github.com/smdunn/angular/commit/3adeb0d96344c15201f7f1a0fae7e533a408e4ae

I can be used as:

import {formatDate} from '@angular/common';
formatDate(new Date(), 'd MMM yy HH:mm', 'en');

Although the locale has to be supplied