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

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

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 LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session replayer and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free over at https://logrocket.com/syntax. 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 Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0	Monday, Monday, Monday,
0:02.0	Open wide Dev fans.
0:04.0	Get ready to stuff your face
0:06.0	with JavaScript, CSS, node modules, barbecue tips,
0:09.0	get workflows,
0:10.0	break dancing, soft skills, web development,
0:12.0	the hastiest, the craziest, the craziest development the hastiest the craziest the tastiest web development treats coming in hot here is
0:18.1	Wes Barracuda bars and Scott El Toroloco, Torlinsky.
0:25.0	Welcome to Syntax.
0:27.0	On this Monday hasty treat, we're going to be talking about libraries
0:32.0	and when you should roll your own or install a dependency
0:36.1	the sort of classic question of should I do this or should I let somebody who's
0:40.6	already done this take care of it for me and just use their work.
0:44.0	It's part of what makes open source software so excellent.
0:48.0	My name is Scott Tlinsky. I'm a full stack developer from Denver, Colorado, and with me as always is Wes Boss.
0:53.9	Hello everybody.
0:54.9	Hey Wes, this episode is sponsored by Log Rocket.
0:59.6	Now I've been using Log Rocket for a little bit here, and let me tell you my favorite thing about Log Rocket
1:05.4	is the session replay where you can see exactly what went wrong and why.
1:11.6	A lot of times you'll just get an error stack and you don't know exactly how
1:16.1	that error was triggered and maybe you're thinking how could they have possibly gotten that error?
1:20.5	I don't know. But with session replay, you not only get a video of what happened
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