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If you, like me, hate having to use the Javascript native object for date formatting and manipulation, but you still need it for your website, you'll be hard pressed to dins a more useful tool than Moment.js. From the moment I discovered it (pun intended) it has been my life saver for avery site where I need to display nicely formatted dates. What I like best is that I can feed it the raw date object from the database, and decide later how I want it displayed for the viewer, so I won't give it a second thought. And the most useful feature is relative time (a moment ago, two days ago etc.), that gives immediate, meaningful information to the reader. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There is nothing to dislike about Moment.js; it's a stable library that does easily, and for free (!), something that previously took hours of tedious work, calculations and tests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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Moment.js helps in date-time manipulation in any js application. It is easy to use and abstracts away all the complexities in an API.
Its a great tool for adding, and subtracting days, hours, minutes, etc from a given date and also lets you check valid date-time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Moment creators mentioned that moment is no longer being maintained which is concerning. The bundle size of the library is heavy and can increase load times for your applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It's easy to parse time and dates with it. You have to go through a lot of hoops and loops to get vanilla JS dates to work, especially if you want something specific like a conditional time statement where x falls between two dates. I enjoyed how simple the code was to retrieve time data. In my project, I had to use time to retrieve weather predictions from a weather API and to utilize the time in a variable. I used moment.js because I was looking for a library that would handle my time-centric calls in a convenient way. I liked how clear and straightforward the documentation was, and how simple it was to install and configure. It was an excellent experience to have had moment.js in my project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Moment.js is not compatible with the modern web, and the creators of moment do not recommend it to be used in future projects. As mentioned in moment.js docs, they say that
"Another common argument against using Moment in modern applications is its size. Moment doesn't work well with modern "tree shaking" algorithms, so it tends to increase the size of web application bundles. If one needs internationalization or time zone support, Moment can get quite large. Modern web browsers (and Node.js) expose internationalization and time zone support via the Intl object, codified as ECMA-402. Libraries like Luxon (and others) take advantage of this, reducing or removing the need to ship your own data files."
In addition, there are better alternatives to moment.js such as...
JavaScript Internationalization API
luxon
date-fns
day.js
I believe these other alternatives would are more reliable for future projects.
For more information, please https://momentjs.com/docs/ Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Following are the things I like best about moment.js:
1. The abstraction of tedious formatting procedures to an intuitive API.
2. Longline of helpful discussions on common issues.
3. As it was the first module I learned about in my training period, it is conducive to my fast development process and delivering timely distributables.
4. Great documentation and guides to provide a single reliable source for learning.
5. Developers acknowledge and openly address its limitations, helping the users to make wise choices instead of being blinded by false claims.
6. It has no dependencies which bolster further its robustness and maturity as a library.
7. Despite its apparent shortcomings, it has stood the test of time and thus has a reputation of being a reliable solution in the web development industry.
8. Language and timezone flexible features are its unique selling points. It is a solution to a fundamental problem that is packaged into an intuitive interface.
9. If offers compatibility over the widest range of browsers compared to any other of its competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Following are the things I dislike about moment.js:
1. Due to performance-related limitations loses its charm over competitors.
2. Hard to debug if I could not rely upon the community Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I love moment coz it's a powerful and extensive date/time management library. Getting started with moment is very easy as it can be installed through npm like other libraries.
Getting the current date-time is pretty simple by instantiating a moment object. Moment provides powerful date-time parsing.
It's also useful in detecting invalid dates. The method isValid() is used to determine if a valid date object is provided.
Moment also supports almost all of the date/time manipulations used regularly like add, subtract, min and max. Some of the unique ones include the start of time and the end of time manipulations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Just one thing I feel about moment is that the moment packge size is very heavy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Moment.js is really helpful in my projects when I need to validate and display different date time formats based on multiple time zones. It is really helpful with dealing with date times and avoid me to do another set of calculations for the same. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
So far it was really great. But sometimes I find it to be slow when processing for larger set of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Manipulation, Translation, Formatting and the fact that everything works perfectly and bug free.
Also the fact that people have started to create its packages in different platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- Timezone manipulation which i believe Luxon did a pretty good job at.
- A calendar created by moment.js. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I really like this library. Date has always been one of the most important and confusing aspect in every application. This library eases our work and helps us work with dates so efficiently. Highly recommended!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
A bit heavy and difficult to import. In every module we are forced to import this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The fact that it's quick and easy. Syntax is direct to the point and not complicated and doesn't require unnecessary material. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
More complex features could be made easier to use and be shorter in syntax, but I may just be nitpicking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Easy to use, wide range format date with different ways. methods to deal with adding, subtracting... etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
some methods found in other libraries that could save time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Moment.js is a useful tool when you are working with multiple databases and Node.js in the backend Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I dislike the add method, you have to handle what are you going to add Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
