esbuild-plugin-filelastmodified

A esbuild plugin to import the last time the file has been modified.

Why

Avoid having to manually hardcode the date and change it every time you make an edit on your website pages. It's very usefull for displaying -> Modified date: 2021-03-31 at the end of web pages.

Install

npm install esbuild-plugin-filelastmodified

Apply plugin to esbuild

import esbuild from 'esbuild'
import fileLastModified from 'esbuild-plugin-filelastmodified'

esbuild.build({
  ...,
  plugins: [
    fileLastModified()
  ]
})

How I would actually use it in React

// Home.js
import React from 'react'
import dayjs from 'dayjs'
import localizedFormat from 'dayjs/plugin/localizedFormat'
import lastModified from '__fileLastModified__' // <-- this gets resolve by the unix date time of this file
dayjs.extend(localizedFormat)

export default () => {
  return <div>{dayjs(lastModified).format('LLL')}</div>
}

Conversion

Before

import lastModified from '__fileLastModified__'

After

const lastModified = 16165180636939285e-4 // unix date time

Options

The plugin accepts the following options as first argument

identifier

By default the identifier is __fileLastModified__. If you have different requirements you can always pass another identifier to be used instead. Must be a Regex!

ex: fileLastModified({ identifier: /__FILE_LAST_MODIFIED__/ })