helper-year

Template helper for adding the current year. Good for adding dates for licenses, copyrights, last modified date, comment dates, etc. Works with handlebars, lo-dash or any template engine that has support for helper functions.

Install with npm

npm i helper-year --save

Examples

{%= year() %}
//=> 2014
{%= year("YYYY") %}
//=> 2014
{%= year("YY") %}
//=> 14

Run tests

npm test

Register the helper

This should work with any engine, here are a few examples

template

Register the helper for use with any template engine

template.helper('year', require('helper-year'));

assemble

To register the helper for use with assemble v0.6.x:

assemble.helper('year', require('helper-year'));

verb

Register the helper for use with verb:

var verb = require('verb');
verb.helper('year', require('helper-year'));
 
verb.task('default', function() {
  verb.src('.verb*.md')
    .pipe(verb.dest('./'));
});

handlebars

var handlebars = require('handlebars');
handlebars.registerHelper('year', require('helper-year'));

Lo-Dash or underscore

// as a mixin
_.mixin({year: require('helper-year')});
_.template('<%= _.year() %>', {});
//=> 2014
 
// passed on the context
_.template('<%= year() %>', {year: require('helper-year')});
//=> 2014
 
// as an import
var settings = {imports: {year: require('helper-year')}};
_.template('<%= year() %>', {}, settings);
//=> 2014

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue

To request or contribute a helper to the github.com/helpers org, please read this contributing guide to get started.

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright (c) 2014 Jon Schlinkert
Released under the MIT license

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This file was generated by verb on December 01, 2014.