Temporal: Getting started with JavaScript's new date time API

• proposal-temporal

  90 3,120 9.4 HTML

  Provides standard objects and functions for working with dates and times.

  

Damn, he says [1]:

> Sorry to be blunt, but the current approach really is a terrible one.

That is blunt, and would require my utmost restraint to avoid falling into the trap of getting overly defensive if I were the proposal authors. Which is a shame, because he makes a good point.

That said, it is also reassuring to see that they did actually consider his point, and I can follow their motivation [2]. I'm not sure whether I'd have made the same decision, but it's certainly a valid one to make.

[1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-temporal/issues/1454

[2] https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/docs/calendar-review#why-a...

• moment

  97 47,790 7.2 JavaScript

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

  

> But let us be honest, it has to compete with moment.js, not with Date().

Moment.js is deprecated: "Moment.js is a legacy project, now in maintenance mode. In most cases, you should choose a different library."

https://github.com/moment/moment/#project-status

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• js-joda

  7 1,586 7.5 JavaScript

  :clock2: Immutable date and time library for javascript

  

• Luxon

  30 14,864 7.6 JavaScript

  ⏱ A library for working with dates and times in JS

  

Note that there exists a spiritual successor to Moment.js, Luxon[1]. The creator was a Moment maintainer and it lives under the Moment project umbrella.

1: https://moment.github.io/luxon/

• date-fns

  115 33,636 9.3 TypeScript

  ⏳ Modern JavaScript date utility library ⌛️

  

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