Modern ES6 Class

For this project, we are going to create a simple class called Sablier (hourglass in French), that takes a date and returns it in milliseconds.

In it we will emulate some of Moment's cool features such as outputting Moment<date> when logged, function chaining or importing isMoment as a stand alone function.

Features:

• import sablier from "./sablier.js"
• import { isSablier } from "./sablier.js"
• No need to use the new keyword to instantiate
• Can pass an unlimited number of arguments
• With function chaining
• console.log(sablier(params)) outputs a custom string Sablier<date_in_ms)>
• ${sablier(params)} outputs a custom string date_in_ms

// Custom console.log
// Deno: https://doc.deno.land/builtin/stable#Deno.inspect
const inspect = Symbol.for("Deno.customInspect")
// Node: https://nodejs.org/api/util.html#util_util_inspect_custom
// const inspect = Symbol.for('nodejs.util.inspect.custom');

class Sablier {
  constructor(date = new Date(), options) {
    // Set the class's properties
    this._date = date;
    this._options = options;

    // Run initialization tasks
    this.initialize();
  }

  initialize() {
    // if Date, convert time to milliseconds
    if (this._date instanceof Date) {
      this._date = this._date.getTime();
    }
  }

  // Output the result
  format() {
    return this._date;
  }

  // Chainable function
  add(amount) {
    this._date += amount;
    return this;
  }

  // Output all the parameters passed after the first one
  options() {
    return this._options;
  }

  // Custom console.log
  [inspect]() {
    return `Sablier<${this._date}>`;
  }

  // Custom String output
  toString() {
    return `${this._date}`;
  }
}

// Automatically instantiate class
const sablier = (date, ...options) => {
  return new Sablier(date, options);
}

// Stand-alone function
const isSablier = date => date instanceof Sablier;
// Access the stand-alone function from the Sablier instance
sablier.isSablier = date => isSablier(date);

export default sablier;
export { isSablier };

Link to live example: https://replit.com/@RilDev/ModernES6Class