Web developers lack lightweight date pickers with flexible selection modes
Web developers need date pickers that can handle common variations such as month-and-year selection, time selection, and showing adjacent-month days. Existing components may lack these options, while one developer says the native picker is frustrating and adding a library feels excessive. The signals show recurring feature requests across several libraries, but do not establish how widespread or costly the problem is.
For web developers building date-entry forms. Mentioned from Jan 2017 to Dec 2024 on GitHub and Hacker News.
5 different people described this problem in 4 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 4.0/10
- Pain
- 4.4/10
- Frequency
- 6.5/10
- Willingness to pay
- 0.0/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Professionals
- Competition
- High
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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Picking a month is a VERY common occurrence
Angular 5 - How to show only month and year in ngxbootstrap/datepicker https://stackoverflow.com/q/49165643/8134483?sem=2 Kindly answer this question thanks
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- Current workarounds, existing solutions and risks