Yesterday I wrote a post about how Moment.js isn’t immutable, and how it really isn’t in the cards for development right now.

I think as a team, we are sometimes not great about communicating things to our community that we are doing, and that are moving the library forward. As such, I wanted to write a short post about stuff we do have going on.

Next Major Release

The next major release of Moment.js and Moment TimeZone will have a complete rework of how the system handles time zones internally. This pull request is the completed work on the moment side. Tim has yet to get to the Moment TimeZone side, but it’s coming.

From a functionality standpoint for the library, this doesn’t really add much, though we might get in some syntactic niceties we didn’t have before. Internally though, we see a drastic improvement in our code base. This will allow us a lot more flexibility with new features down the road.

We also hope to have all of Moment changed over to Babel and Rollup by next major release. Again, this doesn’t add much for functionality, but it set us up to start using more ES2015 features. As a team, we have to decide what features we want to bring into the code and when. This is still in discussion.

There is no date for this, but all of this code is well in progress.

Other Stuff on the Table

• Modularized features
  • I personally am very attached to getting this one done
  • In particular, I would like to see a stand-alone parser that didn’t require the rest of the library
• Duration Formatting
• Non-Gregorian calendars

If any of these are particularly important to you, let me know!

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