Is there any interest in the DateTime class as a package?

[Eonasdan]

I created a tiny date time class that extends the native Date object. It provides a subset of features that moment/dayjs/etc. and helps keep the size of the library smaller. However, as I work to integrate v6 into one of my personal projects, I see that it could be useful on its own. Rather then export all of the bits in the date time class, I was wondering if I should break it out into its own package.

The downside to this is that there's a new dependency and that could lead to increased maintenance complexity that is not currently an issue.

[cdubz]

What features are you focusing on?

Do you think this package would really be novel? E.g. would it combine enough features of moment/dayjs/etc. that are commonly needed by other projects to make it worthwhile? Or do you think it would really only serve TD's use case?

Generally I support small libraries that do specific things well but date/time/i18n/l10n stuff can get so complex so fast. The maintenance burden could definitely be risky.

[Eonasdan]

You are correct. It wouldn't really be that novel. Moment is a large older lib that in maintenance mode. Dayjs is smaller but mostly because they don't use meaningful variable names and separate everything into plugins. I was going to replace moment with dayjs but then it became dayjs => + 1 plugin => + another to even replicate the functions from moment the picker needed. The dt class was most meant to be a small, native extension over the date object to make the picker work without another dependency.

In my personal project I was able to replace all of the moment usages with the DateTime class because I'm already using TD. I even made a chart.js v3 adapter with it.

I wouldn't want it to explode into a new momentjs as there's already several libs that serve that purpose.

Intl is making a lot of head way compared to when moment came out however, you still need extra code for something like a diff function and the formatting doesn't always do what I'd expect.

[cdubz]

Yeah that makes me think its not worth breaking out. I'd vote keep it light and built directly in to TD.