<story><title>Javascript utility libraries to know in 2018</title><url>https://blog.bitsrc.io/11-javascript-utility-libraries-you-should-know-in-2018-3646fb31ade</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Klathmon</author><text>I love moment, but it&amp;#x27;s age is starting to show.&lt;p&gt;The way it&amp;#x27;s designed makes code splitting and tree shaking extremely difficult, and the difficulty removing large chunks of the library (i&amp;#x27;m looking at you locales) is annoying at best. It&amp;#x27;s also a pretty heavy library on it&amp;#x27;s own anyway, as it needs to implement quite a lot of code for legacy browsers that isn&amp;#x27;t really needed if you are only targeting evergreen browsers (and possibly IE 10-11).&lt;p&gt;As an alternative, I always recommend &amp;quot;date-fns&amp;quot;[0]. it got a mention in the article, but not nearly enough of one!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;date-fns&amp;#x2F;date-fns&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;date-fns&amp;#x2F;date-fns&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_ZeD_</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;  I love moment, but it&amp;#x27;s age is starting to show.&lt;p&gt;according to &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;moment&amp;#x2F;moment&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;develop&amp;#x2F;CHANGELOG.md#030&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;moment&amp;#x2F;moment&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;develop&amp;#x2F;CHANGELOG.md#0...&lt;/a&gt; the 0.3.0 release was from 2011.&lt;p&gt;it&amp;#x27;s barely 7 years ago. And I&amp;#x27;m non counting the fact that the current version is 2.22.2 (so there are at least 2 major ones).&lt;p&gt;How... how can you tell it&amp;#x27;s aging?!</text></comment>
<story><title>Javascript utility libraries to know in 2018</title><url>https://blog.bitsrc.io/11-javascript-utility-libraries-you-should-know-in-2018-3646fb31ade</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Klathmon</author><text>I love moment, but it&amp;#x27;s age is starting to show.&lt;p&gt;The way it&amp;#x27;s designed makes code splitting and tree shaking extremely difficult, and the difficulty removing large chunks of the library (i&amp;#x27;m looking at you locales) is annoying at best. It&amp;#x27;s also a pretty heavy library on it&amp;#x27;s own anyway, as it needs to implement quite a lot of code for legacy browsers that isn&amp;#x27;t really needed if you are only targeting evergreen browsers (and possibly IE 10-11).&lt;p&gt;As an alternative, I always recommend &amp;quot;date-fns&amp;quot;[0]. it got a mention in the article, but not nearly enough of one!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;date-fns&amp;#x2F;date-fns&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;date-fns&amp;#x2F;date-fns&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>apaprocki</author><text>Please review and contribute your views on the TC39 Temporal proposal. There’s a polyfill to play with now...&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;tc39&amp;#x2F;proposal-temporal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;tc39&amp;#x2F;proposal-temporal&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>