Humanize

Sometimes, you want all the goodness of dayjs#from but you don't want to have to create two Day.js objects, you just want to display a length of time.

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This requires the Duration plugin to work

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This requires the RelativeTime plugin to work

dayjs.extend(duration);
dayjs.extend(relativeTime);
dayjs.duration(1, 'minutes').humanize(); // a minute
dayjs.duration(2, 'minutes').humanize(); // 2 minutes
dayjs.duration(24, 'hours').humanize(); // a day

By default, the return string is suffixless. If you want a suffix, pass in true as seen below.

dayjs.duration(1, 'minutes').humanize(true); // in a minute

For suffixes before now, pass in a negative number.

dayjs.duration(-1, 'minutes').humanize(true); // a minute ago