date VS date-fns

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

date

Date() for humans (by matthewmueller)

date-fns

⏳ Modern JavaScript date utility library ⌛️ (by date-fns)
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date date-fns
0 114
1,480 33,515
- 0.8%
0.0 9.2
over 1 year ago 5 days ago
JavaScript TypeScript
MIT License MIT License
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date

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

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 2023-12-26.

What are some alternatives?

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

dayjs - ⏰ Day.js 2kB immutable date-time library alternative to Moment.js with the same modern API

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

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

countdown.js - Super simple countdowns.

moment-timezone - Timezone support for moment.js

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

javascript-time-ago - International highly customizable relative date/time formatting

proposal-temporal - Provides standard objects and functions for working with dates and times.