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Web Directions Code '21 session spotlight–How to outsmart time: Building futuristic JavaScript applications using Temporal - Web Directions

Web Directions Code ’21 session spotlight–How to outsmart time: Building futuristic JavaScript applications using Temporal

John Allsopp

9th August, 2021

@johnallsopp

How to outsmart time: Building futuristic JavaScript applications using Temporal

Ujjwal Sharma, Compilers Hacker Igalia

For close to 25 years now, JavaScript developers have suffered at the hands of

time: the Date object. We have tried all sorts of solutions from using popular

libraries like Moment.js all the way to handling dates and times on the backend.

Last year, I told you all about Temporal, a work-in-progress JavaScript

proposal/initiative that I have been working on that aims to fix the situation

by adding a date-time API to JavaScript that is truly futuristic.

Now it’s time to show “time” who is boss. With the Temporal API stable at Stage

3 and the polyfill ready for production use, let me show you how to harness the

power of this delightful API in order to build powerful JavaScript applications

that handle dates and times like we always wished we could. We shall also

discuss the orthogonal features being worked on in the JavaScript Intl API and

find out how these play along with each other and come together to form a

comprehensive set of APIs that allow us to build state of the art date and time

components in our applications.

About Ujjwal Sharma

Ujjwal is a Compilers Hacker at Igalia working on TC39 and V8, Editor of ECMA-402, a Node.js Core Collaborator, a TC39 Delegate and an International Speaker. He loves to talk about open source software, decentralization, cryptography, JavaScript and web standards.

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