Advanced Node.js Development

Using Moment for timestamps

Now when you get into formatting like this, your first instinct is usually to create some utility methods that help with formatting a date. But there is no need to do that because what we're going to look at in this section is a fantastic time library called Moment. Moment is pretty much the only library of its kind. It is universally accepted as the go-to library for working with time and JavaScript, I've never worked on a Node or frontend project that didn't have Moment used, it is truly essential when you're working with dates in any capacity.

Now in order to show off why Moment is so great we are going to first install it over inside of the Terminal. Then we're going to play around with all of its capabilities, ...