How to format time since xxx e.g. “4 minutes ago” similar to Stack Exchange sites

Question

The question is how to format a JavaScript Date as a string stating the time elapsed similar to the way you see times displayed on Stack Overflow.

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Answer 1

Might be an overkill in this case, but if the opportunity shows moment.js is just awesome!

Moment.js is a javascript datetime library, to use it for such scenario, you'd do:

moment(yourdate).fromNow()

http://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/fromnow/

2018 addendum: Luxon is a new modern library and might be worth a look!