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Ionic Social Login Basic Starter

I recently published an Ionic Starter Template for Social Sign-on that does not require a backend service. This is great for those apps that have their own backend already ready or are making apps that do not require a backend.

Ionic Social Login Basic

You can check it out on the Ionic Marketplace

Ionic Photo Camera Starter App Example

I recently released an Ionic Starter App to help jumpstart Camera app development using cordova on iOS and Android.

Ionic Camera App

A simple barebone ionic camera application for iOS and Android that takes photos or loads them from the library and displays them on a canvas. You can then rotate the images and share them via the share sheet or upload them to your server. On iOS save image is supported from the share sheet. For android you will have to add separate button to save images. The Image is drawn onto a canvas for easy image manipulation.

Check it out on the ionic marketplace.

How to Format Post Dates to show Time since Post

Ever wonder how to format your post times to show up like Twitter or Facebook time since post in minutes, hours, etc? Here is an example of a facebook post 5 hrs ago:

hours ago

I recently had to do this for one of my Ionic mobile apps. Here is the function in JavaScript:

function formatTimeSincePost(time) { // SHOW TIME SINCE POST

    var now = new Date();
    var postTime = new Date(Date.parse(time));
    postTime = now.getTime() – postTime.getTime();

    var timeAgo = Math.ceil(postTime/1000/60);
    var displayTime = "" ;

    if ( timeAgo > 1440 ){ // SHOW DAYS
        displayTime = "" + Math.ceil(timeAgo/60/24) + " days" ;
    }
    else if (timeAgo > 59){ // SHOW HOURS
        displayTime = "" + Math.ceil(timeAgo/60) + " hrs" ;
    }
    else { // SHOW MINUTES
        displayTime = timeAgo + " min" ;
    } 

  return displayTime;
}

You can also add months and years easily if you wish. There you go, happy coding.