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JS's built in date formatting/handling is terrible and often do what needs to be one.

MomentJS may be a giant import, but it works an it works really well.

Formatting is fine. Take a look at `Intl.DateTimeFormat`[1]. Then there is a proposal for `Temporal`[2] which will make handling a lot easier.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

[2]: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-temporal

It’s the closest thing we have to a useful standard library. Date handling in js without a library is a code smell.

I am confused, are you using MomentJS for fancy output like 3 days ago etc or for simple output like 5/31/2020? I can see how it is useful in former case but seems overkill in later case.

Safari is lacking in support (again) but we have `Intl.RelativeTimeFormat`[1]

    new Intl.RelativeTimeFormat("default").format(-3, "day")

1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

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