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Hasty Treat - Should you install a dependency or roll your own?
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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 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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