JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground
HTML
<input id="initialDate" onkeyup="checkDiff(this.value)"/>
<input id="diff"/>
JavaScript
function checkDiff (initialDate) {
if (initialDate.length == 10){
var dateParts = initialDate.split("/");
var date = new Date(dateParts[0], dateParts[1]-1,dateParts[2]);
var diff = document.getElementById('diff');
var now = new Date();
diff.value = (now-date);
}
}