Get date when the compile command is executed.

[mrcalvo]

How is it possible for me to capture the date each time the quasar build command is run within a spa application?

[qyloxe]

@mrcalvo I have something like this in “quasar.conf.js”

function formatDate (date) {
  if (!date) {
    date = new Date()
  }
  var year = date.getFullYear(),
    month = ('0' + (date.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2), // months are zero indexed
    day = ('0' + date.getDate()).slice(-2),
    hour = ('0' + date.getHours()).slice(-2),
    minute = ('0' + date.getMinutes()).slice(-2),
    second = ('0' + date.getSeconds()).slice(-2)
  return year + '-' + month + '-' + day + ' ' + hour + ':' + minute + ':' + second
}

module.exports = function (ctx) {

...

  const appenv = ctx.dev
    ? { // so on dev we'll have
    }
    : { // and on build (production):
    }
  let builddate = formatDate()
...
  appenv['MAIN_BUILD_DATE'] = JSON.stringify(builddate)

and later in configuration:

    build: {
...
      env: appenv,
...

In vue/js files it is accessible as:

console.log(process.env.MAIN_BUILD_DATE)