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

I was looking for an answer to this and almost implemented one of these solutions, but a colleague reminded me to check the react-intl library since we were already using it.

So adding to the solutions...in the case you are using the react-intl library, they have a component for this.

https://github.com/yahoo/react-intl/wiki/Components#formattedrelative