Angular 2 “time ago” pipe

Question

I am trying to create a \'time ago\' pipe for my Angular 2 application.

It should transform a date to a string such as \'5 minutes ago\' or \'60 seconds ago\'. It wo

Answer 1

The following library does equivalent job in English and could be forked to change the language or support different ones:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/time-ago-pipe

npm install time-ago-pipe --save

Then in the @NgModule you want to use it in:

import {TimeAgoPipe} from 'time-ago-pipe'

@NgModule({
    imports: [... etc ...],
    declarations: [AppComponent, ...etc..., TimeAgoPipe],
    bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})

And in the template:

{{your_date | timeAgo}}