lukeed/tinydate

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1068 stars · 16 forks observed · 2026-10-21

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

tinydate is a tiny (349B) JavaScript date formatting library that compiles a template pattern into a reusable render function. It supports a limited set of date patterns (year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds) with optional custom dictionaries, and is extremely fast compared to alternatives.

Use cases

• format dates as timestamps in javascript
• render a date template string repeatedly with high performance
• format current time as HH:mm:ss in node
• customize date pattern tokens like month names
• replace heavier date libraries with a 349-byte formatter

When to choose

• you need a minimal, dependency-free date formatter
• performance matters and you only need basic date/time tokens
• you want a reusable compiled template for repeated date rendering

When to avoid

• you need locale-aware or complex date formatting (use date-fns or Intl)
• you need timezone conversion or date manipulation
• you need patterns beyond the supported subset like month names by default

Facets

library · maturity stable

date-time templating serialization developer-tools web-development browser date-formatter tiny zero-dependency performance timestamp algorithms nodejs javascript

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