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by jasonkester 1680 days ago
How about we just go back to writing all the trivial stuff in house?

Nobody is suggesting we each write our own charting library, but we should each be capable of writing that function that picks a random integer between 10 and 15. Because the npm version of that function will have the four thousand dependencies that everybody likes to mock whenever npm is discussed.

Other People’s Javascript is generally pretty terrible. My policy is to only use it when absolutely necessary.