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Immutable.js vs Luxon: What are the differences?
What is Immutable.js? Immutable persistent data collections for Javascript which increase efficiency and simplicity, by Facebook. Immutable provides Persistent Immutable List, Stack, Map, OrderedMap, Set, OrderedSet and Record. They are highly efficient on modern JavaScript VMs by using structural sharing via hash maps tries and vector tries as popularized by Clojure and Scala, minimizing the need to copy or cache data.
What is Luxon? Library for working with dates and times in Javascript. It is a library that makes it easier to work with dates and times in Javascript. If you want, add and subtract them, format and parse them, ask them hard questions, and so on, it provides a much easier and comprehensive interface than the native types it wraps.
Immutable.js and Luxon belong to "Javascript Utilities & Libraries" category of the tech stack.
Immutable.js and Luxon are both open source tools. Immutable.js with 28.3K GitHub stars and 1.64K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Luxon with 8.61K GitHub stars and 364 GitHub forks.
Pros of Immutable.js
- Immutable data structures8
- Allows you to mimic functional programming5
- Bring the functional experience to JS2
- Makes writing Javascript less scary1
- Easily transpiles to different ES standards1
Pros of Luxon
- It's a smaller import, and more modern than Moment.3
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Cons of Immutable.js
Cons of Luxon
- It has a smaller community than moment2
