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Advanced Node.js Development

You're reading from   Advanced Node.js Development Master Node.js by building real-world applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788393935
Length 592 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrew Mead Andrew Mead
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Preface 1. Getting Set Up FREE CHAPTER 2. MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 1 3. MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 2 4. MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 3 5. Real-Time Web Apps with Socket.io 6. Generating newMessage and newLocationMessage 7. Styling Our Chat Page as a Web App 8. The Join Page and Passing Room Data 9. ES7 classes 10. Async/Await Project Setup 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Printing message timestamps


In this section, you're going to be formatting your timestamps, and you're going to be displaying them to the screen along with the chat message. Currently, we show who it's from and the text, but the createdAt timestamp is not used anywhere.

Now the first thing we need to figure out is how we can take that timestamp and get a Moment object back, because at the end of the day we want to call the format method to format it as we like. In order to do that, all you have to do is take your timestamp. We'll make a variable called createdAt to represent that value, and pass it in as the first argument to moment, which means I simply pass in createdAt, just like this:

var createdAt = 1234; 
var date = moment(createdAt); 

When I do this, we're creating a moment with the same methods like format, add, and subtract, but it's representing a different point in time. By default, it uses the current time. If you pass in a timestamp, it uses that time. Now this number, 1234, is...

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