Temporal is great, and the sooner it lands and is usable the better (AFAIK, there isn't a production-grade polyfill yet.)
In the interim, JS-Joda [0] seems pretty decent, and doesn't use the wrapper approach.
In the interim, JS-Joda [0] seems pretty decent, and doesn't use the wrapper approach.
Even the simplest of future cases is handled poorly by these other libraries. If you want to say that something happens on a certain date in the future (say, a due date), your only option is to use an instant as an approximation (often midnight utc on that day). It works ok, but you’re better to have a proper datatype that represents a day without a time and timezone component (it’s effectively a 50hr ish window). Temporal gives you all that and more.
I don’t quite get the point of the other libraries like moment etc. They have a bunch of convenience stuff, but unless you’ve modelled the different types of times that crop up in real life, it’s all a bit pointless. When I first read through the Temporal api, I was physically nodding along in agreement. It’s dates and times done right in js. Can’t wait to be able to use it.