Hasty Treat - Should you install a dependency or roll your own?
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about installing dependencies vs rolling your own - the advantages and disadvantages, and how to know when to do either. LogRocket - Sponsor lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you...
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats · Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski - Full Stack JavaScript Web Developers
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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about installing dependencies vs rolling your own - the advantages and disadvantages, and how to know when to do either.
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Show Notes2:15 - Reasons To roll your own
- Learning Experience
- Fun
- Features
- Add your own features
- Lightweight - only use what you need
8:08 - Reasons not to roll your own
- Battle Tested
- Actually Tested
- Time
- Money
- Experience
11:27 - Fork
- Something needs extra features
- Upstream your changes
13:10 - Some Examples
- Fetch + function vs Axios
- Date functions vs Stack Overflow copy/paste
- Lodash vs your own - try it with map/reduce/filter first, but lots of cases need Lodash
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