date-fns
Modern JavaScript date utility library
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November 11, 2019
The library reached 18M monthly npm downloads
This week, npm reports that date-fns has 4 533 286 weekly downloads. It's 18M downloads per month!
Of course, the number doesn't represent the number of people that use it, but it shows the multitude, especially when you compare it with other packages.
For comparison, React has 26M and Vue.js 5M monthly downloads.
October 6, 2014
I made the very first commit
Even though I disliked Moment.js API, there wasn't an alternative, so I stuck to it. At some point, it became a performance bottleneck in out code I decided that enough is enough and started replacing Moment.js with custom code.
I wrote and published the very first function startOfDay: https://github.com/date-fns/date-fns/commit/ad86a46a059d4baa178aa85d040aa4bd13430749
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Well done! date-fns is my goto library for working with dates. How are you monetising it? I'm guessing donations.
Thank you! Yes, right now Open Collective is the only source of income: https://opencollective.com/date-fns.
I'm also started experimenting with a job board, but it's still early in development: https://jobs.date-fns.org/
Massive engagment, well done 🙌
Thank you!