Using both moment and moment tz

Question

I have recently added moment-timezone to my project. Now that I've started using it, I notice I have replaced nearly all my

import * as moment from "moment" 

with

import * as moment from "moment-timezone" 

I don't see any reason to keep moment around. Is there any limitation I should be aware of before removing it?

Solution

Remove moment as a separate package in your package.json and reference moment-timezone whenever you need an instance of the moment object. In fact, if you don't and you're referencing both packages separately, you'll be loading two largely identical versions of moment.

The documentation referenced by @RobG in his comment is correct, it's just that the moment-timezone package itself loads moment as a dependency.

Comments

[Jaromanda X]

do you use any of moment? we can't tell

[Scipion]

I do, but I was thinking about replacing all my moment by moment-timezone

[Jaromanda X]

does importing moment-timezone give you access to moment functions? I don't think it does - I guess the question is, have you tried?

[Scipion]

yes I did, and it seems so, it's why I want to remove moment :)

[RobG]

Read the documentation: "To use moment-timezone, you will need [email protected]+, moment-timezone.js, and the moment-timezone data."

[Jeremy Wiebe]

IMHO those docs could be more explicit that you only need to directly depend on one or the other, but not both. :)