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date-light: A 1.8KB Alternative to date-fns You Might Actually Like

DEV Community: typescript·날다람쥐·2 days ago
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If you've ever shipped a frontend app and watched your bundle bloat because of date utilities, you're not alone. date-fns is fantastic — but importing 20 functions costs you 18 KB. dayjs is lighter at 3 KB, but it wraps every Date in a mutable object. I wanted something different: pure functions, zero dependencies, and a bundle so small you forget it's there. That's date-light . What is it? date-light is a zero-dependency, fully typed date utility library for JavaScript and TypeScript. It covers the 20 most-used date-fns operations with 39 functions — and the entire thing weighs 1.79 KB minzipped .…

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