137. When to roll your own

Welcome to this episode of The Rabbit Hole where we get into the pros and cons of importing libraries versus rolling them yourself! Opting to import a library is a common choice due to its pre-written functionality, but sometimes we import huge ones, just so they can perform a few functions. We then get left with bloated code containing a bunch of unnecessary scripts. In those instances, it can be very helpful to roll your own, but that can also turn nasty quickly as problem piles on problem, most of which have probably already been solved by a pre-existing library somewhere in any case!

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