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

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