[Yadi]

Thanks a bunch! You're a champ.

Yeah sometimes making these sorts of decisions could easily lead to big pitfalls on the way.

Regarding this part:

> "I also allowed the team to create their own modules instead of extending some existing node.js modules that existed in the community, which to me was a waste when I saw what we did."

This is technical debt as well by the definition of Wikipedia and some 101 CS books. Having enough contribution from a community could always be better of being used, unless that part of the technology is propriety in the product.

[davismwfl]

You are welcome.

I totally agree I screwed the pooch and having 20 years of experience didn't save me. Ironically I had made sure we were giving back to the community but missed some opportunities that would have saved us time and money. Oh well, this year we will add the code to the modules we use. It is on our to do so we remove unnecessary dependencies we added.