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moment
Advanced tools
- Version published
- Weekly downloads
- 20M
- increased by1.22%
- Maintainers
- 5
- Install size
- 4.03 MB
- Created
- Weekly downloads
Package description
What is moment?
The moment npm package is a JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. It is widely used for handling dates and times in Node.js and browser applications.
What are moment's main functionalities?
Parsing
Parse a date string into a moment object.
moment('2023-04-05')Validation
Check if a date is valid.
moment('2023-04-05').isValid()Manipulation
Manipulate dates by adding time to the current date.
moment().add(7, 'days')Formatting
Format a moment date object into a string in a specified format.
moment().format('YYYY-MM-DD')Query
Query dates to compare them.
moment().isBefore('2023-12-25')Other packages similar to moment
date-fns
Provides a collection of simple, pure functions for manipulating JavaScript dates. It is modular, allowing you to pick and choose which functions you need, and is generally considered to be a lighter-weight alternative to moment.
luxon
Created by one of the original Moment.js team members, Luxon is a modern library for working with dates and times. It offers a fluent API and aims to have a smaller footprint than moment.
dayjs
Day.js is a minimalist JavaScript library that parses, validates, manipulates, and displays dates and times for modern browsers with a largely Moment.js-compatible API. It is lightweight and its API is designed to be familiar to Moment.js users.
Readme
Moment.js
A JavaScript date library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates.
Project Status
Moment.js is a legacy project, now in maintenance mode. In most cases, you should choose a different library.
For more details and recommendations, please see Project Status in the docs.
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License
Moment.js is freely distributable under the terms of the MIT license.
FAQs
Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates
The npm package moment receives a total of 16,390,635 weekly downloads. As such, moment popularity was classified as popular.
We found that moment demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 5 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
Last updated on 06 Jul 2022
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