date-fns: Detailed Overview & Metrics

v4.1.0(2 months ago)

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date-fns is a modern JavaScript date utility library that provides comprehensive functionality for manipulating, formatting, and parsing dates. It offers a modular and consistent API for working with dates, making it easy to perform common date operations like adding or subtracting time units, calculating differences between dates, and formatting dates in various formats.

Compared to Moment.js, date-fns is actively maintained, lightweight, and modular, allowing developers to include only the specific functions they need in their projects. It follows modern JavaScript practices and has a smaller bundle size, making it a popular choice for handling date-related tasks in modern web applications.

Alternatives:

dayjs+
luxon+
moment+
js-joda+
chrono-node+
spacetime+
date-and-time+
ms+
dateformat+
timeago.js+

Tags: javascriptdatetimeutilityformatting