JavaScript’s 2024 MVPs (Most Valuable Packages)
One of the reasons the JavaScript language has become so popular over the last decade is the thriving open-source package ecosystem. The npm Registry alone has more than two million packages! There’s truly a package for just about anything. But all these options make it tough to figure out which packages to truly master and add to your JS tool belt. If you could only master five JavaScript packages in 2024… make it these five.
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5. date-fns
date-fns is lightweight date utility library that provides an isomorphic API ready to use in the browser and Node.js. Until the new JavaScript Temporal API ships (which could be soon… 🙏) your time (pun intended) is very well spent learning to use a date utility library. Yes, I know Moment.js is more ubiquitous, but it is no longer being actively developed and even the…
