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.

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Show Notes

2:15 - 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

Links

• React PowerPlug
• Lodash
• Axios
• Stack Overflow

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