dirge.js

Ever wanted to schedule a blog post for future publishing or set a date for an event listing to be hidden? Then dirge may be a solution.

We say it only may be a solution because if you have server-side rendering, or a fully-featured JS framework, then there are definitely better ways to do this.

If you have a static website, e.g. Jekyll, and just want a simple way of showing and hiding elements then dirge.js can help.

Usage

Initialise dirge.js by calling it on any jQuery selection. It will then scan all child elements looking for data-dirge-* attributes.

$(document).dirge();

Typical usage is via data-dirge-* attributes:

Attribute	Description
data-dirge-start	Any absolute date-string
data-dirge-end	Any absolute date-string or relative period from start date
data-dirge-replace-with	Element ID to be shown after end date

dirge.js can be initialised with a configuration object which will be applied to all elements selected by the jQuery selector. Note that any data-dirge-* attributes will override those specified in the configuration object.

$('.post').dirge({ end: '1month' });

Date-strings

The data-dirge-start attribute only accepts absolute date-strings allowed by Date.parse().

Relative date-times are expressed by a positive integer and an identifier. Available identifiers come in long and short forms:

Long form	Short form
second	s
minute	m
hour	h
day	d
week	w
month	M
year	y

Some examples of how end-dates are resolved:

Start Date	End Date	Resolved End Date
2016-04-01	2016-05-01	2016-05-01
2016-04-01	1M	2016-05-01
2016-04-01	1month	2016-05-01
2016-04-01	1year	2017-05-01

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Configuration

$.dirge()

{
  period: {
    start: ''
    end: ''
  },
  replaceWith: $()
}