date-fns VS Luxon

In past i used Moment, but I read that we should avoid to use it for future projects. I read someone suggested to use Datejs, but it doesn't seems to be updated, last time was 8 years ago. Currently I'm thinking to use Luxon but I someone suggest Date-fns also.

date-fns : Date handling

Thanks! I used date-fns for the calendar

I've used this before and I like it more

The default date constructor does a really great job at parsing in most cases and things like addition/subtraction along with many other common operations are usually just simple math. If you really want to abstract that use date-fns where most date operations are tree shakable to be left with just a few lines of code.

date-fns and mitt (event emitter) are also frequent helpers, but I'm considering dayjs and nanoevents for these cases.

We all know the pain of working with dates in Javascript. It needs to be more explicit, has almost no method, and could not be more clunky. For example, to create the Date January 1, 2023, you have to write a new Date (2023, 0, 1), which can be confusing for beginners, and overall just not that clear. And because of these reasons, the community has made many libraries that attempt to make Date easier to work with over the past years. Like momentjs or Date-fns. But the good news is that you won't need these third-party libraries any longer. The Temporal Date API in Javascript attempts to completely replace the Date object and fix all of the issues we generally face when working with dates.

Next we're going to install any additional dependencies we need. In our case, we're just going to need date-fns which is a library that makes it trivial to work with datetimes in JavaScript.

Obligatory plug for date-fns. https://date-fns.org/

In past i used Moment, but I read that we should avoid to use it for future projects. I read someone suggested to use Datejs, but it doesn't seems to be updated, last time was 8 years ago. Currently I'm thinking to use Luxon but I someone suggest Date-fns also.

Pain

Eleventyone’s project scaffold includes: Eleventy with a skeleton site, a date format filter for Nunjucks based on Luxon, a tiny CSS pipeline with PostCSS, an equally tiny inline JS pipeline, JS search index generator, Netlify Dev for testing Netlify redirects, and a serverless (FaaS) development pipeline with Netlify Dev and Netlify Functions.

Alternatively, you can download the latest version from the GitHub releases page and include it in your project manually (but you really shouldn't)

Luxon is a powerful and lightweight JavaScript library for working with dates and times. It was created as an alternative to the popular Moment.js library, with the goal of being faster, smaller, and easier to use.

But how does this compare to Luxon? (https://moment.github.io/luxon/#/why)

Note that gitinfo.js assumes you have installed the luxon package, to be used here for formatting dates from Git commit data. (On the other hand, child_process is included in Node.js.) Notice also that you’ll have to supply, in the repoLink variable, the URL for your online repo’s commits.

if you are starting a new project then i would recommend luxon (recommended by momentjs) https://www.npmjs.com/package/luxon

Now, let’s check out how we can use different date formats with the help of i18next and Luxon to handle date and time.