Angular 2 “time ago” pipe

The following library does equivalent job in English and could be forked to change the language or support different ones:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/time-ago-pipe

npm install time-ago-pipe --save

Then in the @NgModule you want to use it in:

import {TimeAgoPipe} from 'time-ago-pipe'

@NgModule({
    imports: [... etc ...],
    declarations: [AppComponent, ...etc..., TimeAgoPipe],
    bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})

And in the template:

<span>{{your_date | timeAgo}}</span>