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Luxon – A library for working with dates and times in JS

#1

Post by kermire » Sat, Nov 18, 2017, 5:14 PM UTC

Luxon – A library for working with dates and times in JS
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Re: Luxon – A library for working with dates and times in JS

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Post by bastijn » Sat, Nov 18, 2017, 7:29 PM UTC

Not a direct js dev so forgive my ignorance. How does this compare to moment.js [0]? Any feature differences?

[0] https://momentjs.com/

Re: Luxon – A library for working with dates and times in JS

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Post by Osmose » Sat, Nov 18, 2017, 7:30 PM UTC

bastijn wrote: post #2

Not a direct js dev so forgive my ignorance. How does this compare to moment.js [0]? Any feature differences? [0] https://momentjs.com/

There's a page explaining this: https://moment.github.io/luxon/docs/manual/faq/why.html

Re: Luxon – A library for working with dates and times in JS

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Post by bastijn » Sat, Nov 18, 2017, 7:37 PM UTC

Osmose wrote: post #3

bastijn wrote: post #2

Not a direct js dev so forgive my ignorance. How does this compare to moment.js [0]? Any feature differences? [0] https://momentjs.com/

There's a page explaining this: https://moment.github.io/luxon/docs/manual/faq/why.html

Thanks. This link should be on the github page to be honest. For people like me who do not (always) click through if they don’t see an immediate need. Only now notice the url contains moment and this is part of moment.

Re: Luxon – A library for working with dates and times in JS

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Post by k__ » Sat, Nov 18, 2017, 7:40 PM UTC

How does it compare to date-fns?

Re: Luxon – A library for working with dates and times in JS

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Post by tommikaikkonen » Sat, Nov 18, 2017, 7:41 PM UTC

I've migrated a lot of code from moment to date-fns because of moment's bulky size and vast, mutable API. Luxon seems to fix the API issue. date-fns is still great for simple operations, but I'll definitely consider this for new projects with nontrivial datetime handling.

Re: Luxon – A library for working with dates and times in JS

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Post by cel1ne » Sat, Nov 18, 2017, 7:49 PM UTC

PLEASE use joda-js on Javascript: https://js-joda.github.io/js-joda/

It's a port of the java8 date/time API, which is the most correct date-handling library there is.

Re: Luxon – A library for working with dates and times in JS

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Nov 18, 2017, 8:09 PM UTC

cel1ne wrote: post #7

PLEASE use joda-js on Javascript: https://js-joda.github.io/js-joda/ It's a port of the java8 date/time API, which is the most correct date-handling library there is.

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Re: Luxon – A library for working with dates and times in JS

#9

Post by ianstormtaylor » Sat, Nov 18, 2017, 8:11 PM UTC

How does this compare in file size to Moment? That's the only real issue I have with it.

Re: Luxon – A library for working with dates and times in JS

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Post by Techonomicon » Sat, Nov 18, 2017, 9:24 PM UTC

bastijn wrote: post #4

Osmose wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a page explaining this: https://moment.github.io/luxon/docs/manual/faq/why.html

Thanks. This link should be on the github page to be honest. For people like me who do not (always) click through if they don’t see an immediate need. Only now notice the url contains moment and this is part of moment.

Well, perhaps the people who don't care to investigate just aren't a target of this library at the moment.