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by esailija 3747 days ago
Yes. With dependency you are giving up control and in return you save time in not having to implement the dependency. If the LoC is small you get practically nothing in return and so the only reason to do it is ideological.

Many times it is even faster to write a trivial "module" yourself than even discover it on npm, let alone reading and verifying it. Hell, NPM 3.x is so slow that it's literally faster to write any 1 liner "module" than it is just to install it.

"Reuse" is just a means to an end, it doesn't make sense to do it only for its own sake.