date-fns VS dayjs

Compare date-fns vs dayjs and see what are their differences.

date-fns

⏳ Modern JavaScript date utility library ⌛️ (by date-fns)

dayjs

⏰ Day.js 2kB immutable date-time library alternative to Moment.js with the same modern API (by iamkun)
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date-fns dayjs
110 91
32,340 44,158
1.3% -
8.1 8.3
5 days ago 6 days ago
TypeScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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date-fns

Posts with mentions or reviews of date-fns. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-09.

dayjs

Posts with mentions or reviews of dayjs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-20.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing date-fns and dayjs you can also consider the following projects:

Luxon - ⏱ A library for working with dates and times in JS

moment - Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates in javascript.

moment-timezone - Timezone support for moment.js

countdown.js - Super simple countdowns.

timeago.js - :clock8: :hourglass: timeago.js is a tiny(2.0 kb) library used to format date with `*** time ago` statement.

js-joda - :clock2: Immutable date and time library for javascript

fecha - Lightweight and simple JS date formatting and parsing

Mongoose - MongoDB object modeling designed to work in an asynchronous environment.