jquery-timeago
:clock8: The original jQuery plugin that makes it easy to support automatically updating fuzzy timestamps (e.g. "4 minutes ago"). (by rmm5t)
date-fns
⏳ Modern JavaScript date utility library ⌛️ (by date-fns)
jquery-timeago | date-fns | |
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2 | 125 | |
3,815 | 35,497 | |
0.0% | 0.8% | |
2.7 | 9.3 | |
over 1 year ago | 6 months ago | |
JavaScript | TypeScript | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
jquery-timeago
Posts with mentions or reviews of jquery-timeago.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-26.
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How to handle 'time ago' and site caching?
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?
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 2025-03-06.
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Say Goodbye to JavaScript’s DST Date Confusion
These issues can also occur in date-time libraries such as moment.js, date-fns, Day.js, and luxon.
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Day 8: D-8 🎱
Do you know how many days left till Christmas? Well this little handy library certainly does!
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Release Radar · September 2024: Major updates from the open source community
JavaScript seems to be the flavour of the month, and here's another JavaScript project for you. date-fns provides the most comprehensive and consistent toolset for manipulating JavaScript dates in a browser & Node.js. The latest version comes ten years after the very first release. There are no breaking changes in the release, and it comes with added time zone support, meaning you can select which time zone to make calculations in. There are some changes to functional arguments and a few fixes. Read up on all the changes in the release notes.
- Date-fns: Modern JavaScript date utility library
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Date Formatting: Carbon, date-fns, and Vanilla JS
Working with dates and times is an essential part of web development. Whether you're building a blog, an e-commerce site, or a personal project, handling and formatting dates correctly can greatly enhance user experience. In this blog, we'll explore date formatting using three different methods: Carbon (PHP), date-fns (JavaScript), and Vanilla JS Date. We'll provide examples for each to help you understand how to format dates in various contexts.
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Publish pure ESM npm package written in TypeScript to JSR
I'm developing vremel, an utility library for Temporal API (similar to date-fns for Date). It's a pure ESM package1 and written in TypeScript.
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How to parse and format a date in JavaScript
Date-fns (33.3k ⭐) — A library that offers great documentation, functional architecture, and utilities that handle almost any task you can think of. It has a modular design that allows you to import only the functions you need.
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Handling dates in JavaScript with Tempo
date-fns is a JavaScript date-handling library written in TypeScript. It was first released in 2014. date-fns works in both the browser and Node.js. It also supports working with TypeScript and Flow (the JavaScript typechecker). date-fns is very popular, with 33.4K stars on GitHub and 20.5M npm weekly downloads, at the time of writing.
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JavaScript Compare Dates: From Chaos to Clarity
Date-fns is a modern and modular library that lets you do amazing things with dates and times. You can parse, sort dates, and format them in any way you want. You can also use plugins to add more features, like natural language comparisons, relative time, or custom formats.
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Javascript Date() - DateOnly Format and off by 1 day when using date-fns
// Prevent the date to lose the milliseconds when passed to new Date() in IE10 return new (argument.constructor as GenericDateConstructor)( +argument, ); // Source: https://github.com/date-fns/date-fns/blob/5c1adb5369805ff552737bf8017dbe07f559b0c6/src/toDate/index.ts#L46
What are some alternatives?
When comparing jquery-timeago and date-fns you can also consider the following projects:
moment - Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates in javascript.
dayjs - ⏰ Day.js 2kB immutable date-time library alternative to Moment.js with the same modern API
timezone-js
fecha - Lightweight and simple JS date formatting and parsing
Luxon - ⏱ A library for working with dates and times in JS