How do you return posts created in a date range?

Hi all,

I am trying to implement an archives search in my blog, which requires me to return posts within a date range. I am trying the following but with no luck:

        let postQuery = this.$content('blog', { deep: true })
          .only(['dir', 'title', 'author', 'description', 'image', 'createdAt'])
          .sortBy('createdAt', 'desc');

        if (this.dateFilter) {
          const startDate = new Date(this.dateFilter.setDate(1));
          const endDate = new Date(this.dateFilter.setMonth(this.dateFilter.getMonth() + 1, 1));
          postQuery = postQuery.where({ createdAt: { $between: [startDate, endDate] } });
        }

        this.posts = await postQuery.fetch();

the above gives no errors, but just doesn’t return anything. I have tried all sorts of variations on this, such as:

          postQuery = postQuery.where({
            $and: [
              { createdAt: { $gte: startDate } },
              { createdAt: { $lte: endDate } }
            ]
          });

but still no luck. The only thing I can’t think of is that createdAt is not a date?

Any help much appreciated!

[azrikahar]

I cracked the code! (and probably my head as well)

CodeSandBox Link: https://codesandbox.io/s/solitary-tree-sf9ew?file=/pages/blog/index.vue

As I mentioned the typeof thing and the using Epoch in the library, it dawned on me on why not trying to use epoch on our frontend code? Seems like it actually works! We just need to use new Date(date).valueOf() instead of the typical new Date(date) and we will have a working filter. Setting both of their value to empty string also seems to work without needing to cater cases like one of it is filled but the other not filled and might interfere with the $and query. But no, if one of them is empty, it will act as if it is not bound and we can just set startDate or endDate only. Hope it’s not just a “work in my machine/env” type of deal here.

[gsjen]

valueOf() only worked for me in development. In production I had to switch to toJSON().