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Showdown vs Luxon: What are the differences?

What is Showdown? JavaScript port of Markdown. Showdown lets you add in-browser preview to existing Markdown apps. Any app that accepts HTML input can now be made to speak Markdown by modifying the input pages's HTML.

What is Luxon? Library for working with dates and times in Javascript. 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.

Showdown and Luxon can be categorized as "Javascript Utilities & Libraries" tools.

Showdown and Luxon are both open source tools. Showdown with 9.54K GitHub stars and 1.29K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Luxon with 8.61K GitHub stars and 364 GitHub forks.

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    It's a smaller import, and more modern than Moment.
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    Easy setup

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    It has a smaller community than moment
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    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.

    What is Showdown?

    Showdown lets you add in-browser preview to existing Markdown apps. Any app that accepts HTML input can now be made to speak Markdown by modifying the input pages's HTML

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    What are some alternatives to Luxon and Showdown?
    Moment.js
    A javascript date library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates.
    Modernizr
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    Modernizr
    It’s a collection of superfast tests or detects as we like to call them which run as your web page loads, then you can use the results to tailor the experience to the user. It tells you what HTML, CSS and JavaScript features the user’s browser has to offer.
    Lodash
    A JavaScript utility library delivering consistency, modularity, performance, & extras. It provides utility functions for common programming tasks using the functional programming paradigm.
    axios
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