What is Luxon?
It is a library that makes it easier to work with dates and times in Javascript. If you want, add and subtract them, format and parse them, ask them hard questions, and so on, it provides a much easier and comprehensive interface than the native types it wraps.
Luxon is a tool in the Javascript Utilities & Libraries category of a tech stack.
Luxon is an open source tool with 15.4K GitHub stars and 729 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Luxon's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Luxon?
Companies
14 companies reportedly use Luxon in their tech stacks, including 1CPD, Enigma, and ABP.IO.
Developers
42 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Luxon.
Luxon Integrations
JavaScript, Node.js, TypeScript, ES6, and React Native are some of the popular tools that integrate with Luxon. Here's a list of all 7 tools that integrate with Luxon.
Pros of Luxon
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Luxon's Features
- DateTime, Duration, and Interval types
- Immutable, chainable, unambiguous API
- Parsing and formatting for common and custom formats
- Native time zone and Intl support (no locale or tz files)
Luxon Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Luxon?
Moment.js
A javascript date library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates.
jQuery
jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
React
Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
AngularJS
AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.
Vue.js
It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.
