tape VS moment

Compare tape vs moment and see what are their differences.

tape

tap-producing test harness for node and browsers (by tape-testing)

moment

Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates in javascript. (by moment)
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tape moment
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5,757 47,790
0.1% 0.1%
8.5 7.2
about 1 month ago 24 days ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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tape

Posts with mentions or reviews of tape. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-07.
  • Having deps is a good thing, and disk space is infinite and free
    1 project | /r/programmingcirclejerk | 18 May 2023
  • Express API Testing
    14 projects | /r/node | 7 Mar 2023
    Last but not least important are ava, uvu and tape; they are a really light and fast test runners.
  • Unit testing: What to use, and how?
    5 projects | /r/node | 13 Feb 2023
    A more minimalist approach is this tape module and the TAP protocol. https://www.npmjs.com/package/tape
  • Straight talk: Salary discussion thread
    2 projects | /r/Thailand | 18 Dec 2022
    OK will do. Do you have any tips on finding a suitable project? Ideally I was hoping to to contribute to a piece of software that I actually use/know/like/want to improve. Given that, and my area of expertise, I had shortlisted Signal Desktop, and Tape.
  • Find component by display name when the component is stateless functional, with Enzyme
    1 project | /r/codehunter | 2 Apr 2022
    Reactjs I have the following components: // Hello.jsexport default (React) => ({name}) => { return ( Hello {name ? name : 'Stranger'}! )}// App.jsimport createHello from './Hello'export default (React) => () => { const Hello = createHello(React) const helloProps = { name: 'Jane' } return ( )}// index.jsimport React from 'react'import { render } from 'react-dom'import createApp from './App'const App = createApp(React)render( , document.getElementById('app')) And I want to set up a test to see if the App component contains one Hello component. I tried the following, using Tape and Enzyme: import createApp from './App'import React from 'react'import test from 'tape'import { shallow } from 'enzyme'test('App component test', (assert) => { const App = createApp(React) const wrapper = shallow() assert.equal(wrapper.find('Hello').length === 1, true)}) But the result was that the length property of the find result was equal to 0, when I was expecting it to be equal to 1. So, how do I find my Hello component? Answer link : https://codehunter.cc/a/reactjs/find-component-by-display-name-when-the-component-is-stateless-functional-with-enzyme
  • Nobody at Facebook has worked on Jest for years
    3 projects | /r/javascript | 2 Feb 2022
  • Tools for testing Functional Web Apps
    3 projects | dev.to | 20 Dec 2021
    For us at Begin and Architect, tape has been in use for several years. tape has a stable and straightforward API, routine maintenance updates, and outputs TAP, making it really versatile. While TAP is legible, it's not the most human-readable format. Fortunately, several TAP reporters can help display results for developers. Until recently, Begin's TAP reporter of choice was tap-spec. Sadly tap-spec wasn't kept up to date and npm began reporting vulnerabilities.
  • Chaijs.com just let their domain expire
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Dec 2021
    I really enjoy Ava [1] or anything assert-tape-like [2]. "uvu" [3] is getting a lot of love lately, but it's very feature limited and much of it's touted advantages are at the detriment to feature set.

    [1] https://github.com/avajs/ava

    [2] https://github.com/substack/tape

    [3] https://github.com/lukeed/uvu

    Jest is great for front-end (or full stack integration) testing, but I feel it's specialized for that use-case and doesn't always play nice with backend/middle-tier testing needs.

  • Advanced Roadmap for React.js developers
    20 projects | dev.to | 25 Nov 2021
    -Jest -React testing library -Enzyme -Sinon -Mocha -Chai -AVA -Tape
  • The React roadmap for beginners you never knew you needed.
    42 projects | dev.to | 23 Nov 2021
    Tape

moment

Posts with mentions or reviews of moment. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-02.
  • How to Convert String to Date in JavaScript
    1 project | dev.to | 5 Apr 2024
    To learn more about Moment.js, please visit their official website.
  • 8 NPM Packages for JavaScript Beginners [2024][+tutorials]
    6 projects | dev.to | 2 Apr 2024
    Ah, Moment.js, the guardian angel of date and time manipulation. Ever needed to format a date, calculate durations, or display something like "2 days ago"? Moment.js has got your back. It's a lifesaver for anything date and time-related, making it a must-have in your project, especially if you're into making your users feel like you really get them.
  • Adding "Created At" and "Last Updated" Dates to Jekyll
    1 project | dev.to | 9 Jan 2024
    After hours of trying to figure out why Jekyll was still showing "Today" for a post I modified last week, I remembered that I am using the timeago filter from jekyll-timeago plugin. I was rendering the dates using {{ doc.last_modified_at | timeago }}. As you know, Jekyll is a static site generator, and it renders this as HTML at the time of build, and only then. This means any date rendered with timeago is hardcoded as is in the HTML and won't change until the next build. I switched all the dates to the "%-d %b %y" format for now. Might use moment.js in the future to get the timeago dates back.
  • The 20 most used React libraries
    9 projects | dev.to | 29 Dec 2023
    moment: Handles date and time manipulations with ease. Learn more
  • 👨‍🚀 Traversing Time with Intl.RelativeTimeFormat()
    2 projects | dev.to | 18 Dec 2023
    For the longest time working with dates in JavaScript was a huge pain. That’s why libraries such as moment.js or date-fns are so popular. A lot of times I’d reach for these libraries when working with relative time formatting, but since late last year we’ve had pretty great browser support for the RelativeTimeFormat() method. In my mind, relative dates are just more visually appealing, especially for working with dates internationally. Dates like "5 days ago" or "in 2 months" are far more intuitive for users than 12/12/2023, or 03/11/2027. Folks in the US will see that as March 11, 2027, whereas the rest of the world will see that as November 03, 2027. What a nightmare.
  • Best date library to handle timezones in React Native?
    3 projects | /r/reactnative | 5 Dec 2023
    İ am using moment js for a long time. You can check it also. https://momentjs.com/
  • JS Date: The Timezone Tantrum
    3 projects | dev.to | 14 Nov 2023
    We could control the DST flip by setting the test's input time to the appropriate time of year (summer/winter). However we couldn't control the timezone. We had to adjust the expected data in the test 🤢 using the same library which the production code used (momentjs).
  • is there a date calculate script/libary ?
    2 projects | /r/learnjavascript | 11 Jul 2023
  • Top 10 "Must Have" Repositories for Web Developers
    6 projects | dev.to | 11 Jul 2023
    8. Moment.js
  • You don't need zero JS website for a perfect Lighthouse score
    4 projects | dev.to | 9 May 2023
    This may sound a bit general but we can't forget about well-tought code. If we are using a lot of external dependencies, we can check if there aren't many lighter alternatives. Example? Some people are still using moment.js for date formatting. Why not use a lightweight 2kb alternative instead? Writing clean, organized and maintainable code won't give us a huge score boost but we are trying to save every byte of data, right? 😉

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tape and moment you can also consider the following projects:

jest - Delightful JavaScript Testing.

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

tap - Test Anything Protocol tools for node

date-fns - ⏳ Modern JavaScript date utility library ⌛️

ava - Node.js test runner that lets you develop with confidence 🚀

dateformat - A node.js package for Steven Levithan's excellent dateFormat() function.

mocha - ☕️ simple, flexible, fun javascript test framework for node.js & the browser

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

hyperapp - 1kB-ish JavaScript framework for building hypertext applications

moment-timezone - Timezone support for moment.js

AVA

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