After searching for a fast and lightweight universal date formatting library, I’ve decided to create my own! I managed to include the most common features in just 157 bytes. The thing is also more than 2 times faster than Moment’s format and 3,5 times faster than date-fns lightFormat. 😃

Formatting patterns are compliant with Unicode Technical Standard #35.

While only a basic set of features is included with the format function, I added an additional localeFormat for locale-based formatting (such as month names). I’m planning on extending the package in the future to potentially include string escape mechanism and time-zone formatting.

Antoni Kepinski, who was a guest of ours on JS Party #85:

I wrote a short tutorial on how to embed Changelog’s podcast player into a React application so that it doesn’t affect the performance and accessibility of the site.

While I do understand that Changelog isn’t interested in How-to's and tutorials, I feel like this one can be an exception, as it is related directly to Changelog and its podcasts ;)

Antoni is correct! How-to’s and tutorials aren’t something we share often. It’s not that they aren’t useful, it’s just that they aren’t really news and they are rarely noteworthy. But I’ll make an exception this time. 😉

Antoni created Cashify because the popular money.js library is no longer maintained. Cashify offers a simple API, requires 0 dependencies, is actively maintained, and is written in TypeScript.