how to use the intlformatdistance function from the date-fns library in typescript

To use the intlFormatDistance function from the date-fns library in TypeScript, first, you need to install the date-fns library.

You can do so by running the following command in your project folder:

npm install date-fns
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Then, you can import the intlFormatDistance function from the date-fns library in your TypeScript file:

index.ts
import { intlFormatDistance } from 'date-fns';
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After that, you can use the intlFormatDistance function with your desired parameters.

Here's an example usage of the intlFormatDistance function:

index.ts
const result = intlFormatDistance(
  new Date(2021, 6, 30, 12, 0, 0),
  new Date(2021, 6, 30, 16, 30, 30),
  { addSuffix: true }
);

console.log(result);
// outputs: "in about 4 hours"
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In this example, we've passed two Date instances to the intlFormatDistance function along with an options object to format the result. The function returns a string that represents the distance between the two dates in a human-readable format.

The addSuffix option adds a string like "in" or "ago" to the result to indicate whether the second date is in the future or the past with respect to the first date.

I hope this helps!