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date-fns/date-fns vs iamkun/dayjs

iamkun/dayjs shows stronger signals overall

As of September 2026, dayjs shows healthier maintenance signals than date-fns. dayjs rates Healthy overall while date-fns rates Mixed. date-fns last saw a commit 1 month ago with 10+ active contributors, while dayjs last saw a commit 1 month ago with 19+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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date-fns/date-fns

Mixed

Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting

MixedDependency

top contributor handles 90% of recent commits; license evidence incomplete

MixedFork & modify

license evidence incomplete

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10; license evidence incomplete

  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 90% of recent commits
  • Last commit 2w ago
  • 10 active contributors
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

iamkun/dayjs

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

HealthyDependency

No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 71% of recent commits
  • Last commit 3d ago
  • 19 active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

date-fnsdayjs
Stars36,63248,665
Last commit1mo ago1mo ago
LicenseUnknownMIT
Open issues9951,298
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage2%41%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsHealthy signals

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