https://github.com/salvillalon45/timestamp-freecodecamp
A REST API to give you the current date or any date you give it in unix and utc format!
https://github.com/salvillalon45/timestamp-freecodecamp
expressjs javascript momentjs nodejs render rest-api typescript
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A REST API to give you the current date or any date you give it in unix and utc format!
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/salvillalon45/timestamp-freecodecamp
- Owner: salvillalon45
- Created: 2023-11-30T20:31:52.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2023-12-20T20:56:49.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-21T23:31:33.552Z (over 1 year ago)
- Topics: expressjs, javascript, momentjs, nodejs, render, rest-api, typescript
- Language: TypeScript
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- Size: 7.87 MB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 2
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- Readme: README.md
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# Timestamp
freeCodeCamp - Back End Development and APIs | Project: Timestamp
# Summary
Create a timestamp api that will take in route params. A request to /api/:date? with a valid date should return a JSON object with a unix key that is a Unix timestamp of the input date in milliseconds (as type Number) and a utc key that is a string of the input date in the format: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT.
**[Learn more about the Project Task.](https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/back-end-development-and-apis/back-end-development-and-apis-projects/timestamp-microservice)**
The route params are the following:
- A unix timestamp like 1451001600000
- A string such as 2015-12-25 or 05 October 2011, GMT
- The route params can also be invalid date inputs such as a string like this this-is-not-a-date
- An empty route parameter should return the current time and date in a JSON object with a unix and utc key
Examples:
- http://localhost:3000/api/2015-12-25
- http://localhost:3000/api/1451001600000
- http://localhost:3000/api/05 October 2011, GMT
- http://localhost:3000/api/this-is-not-a-date
- http://localhost:3000/api/
### Implementation
- Use momentjs isValid function to check if the dateInput is a valid date
- Created a TypeScript + Express API
- Used `Map` to easily create objects and convert the `Map` into an object
- Created a ` util.ts`` file to place all the helper functions used in the `server.ts` file
- Used [Date.getTime()](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/getTime) to return the number of milliseconds for this date since the epoch
- Used [Date.toUTCString()](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/toUTCString) to return a string representing this date in the RFC 7231 format, with negative years allowed
### Demo
# Technologies:
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Render
- momentjs