fecha VS jquery-timeago

Compare fecha vs jquery-timeago and see what are their differences.

fecha

Lightweight and simple JS date formatting and parsing (by taylorhakes)

jquery-timeago

:clock8: The original jQuery plugin that makes it easy to support automatically updating fuzzy timestamps (e.g. "4 minutes ago"). (by rmm5t)
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fecha jquery-timeago
0 2
2,058 3,819
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0.0 2.7
about 1 year ago 8 months ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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fecha

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

jquery-timeago

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  • How to handle 'time ago' and site caching?
    2 projects | /r/Wordpress | 26 Apr 2022
    http://timeago.yarp.com/ - says that it will only apply the 'timeago' function on time tags with a "timeago" class. Is that what you're using?
    2 projects | /r/Wordpress | 26 Apr 2022
    Thanks, I've tested and this works with https://timeago.yarp.com/ . General question, will this be lighter performance-wise vs using a PHP function to change datetime appearance & Low ttl on the page (This is how it was done before)?

What are some alternatives?

When comparing fecha and jquery-timeago you can also consider the following projects:

date-fns - ⏳ Modern JavaScript date utility library ⌛️

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

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

countdown.js - Super simple countdowns.

moment-timezone - Timezone support for moment.js

timezone-js

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