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Discussion on: Is the use of scaffolding a good idea for a junior dev?

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Adrian B.G.

AHH so you mean bootstrapping.

Last week a spent 3h building what react-create-app does in 5seconds, because I wanted to learn webpack. I have many yes of full stack web development,as a context.

My answer is not related to the Devs experience or knowledge,but instead of the purpose.

Are you building a product that needs to be online by tomorrow,and you want bulletproof setup because you are getting paid? OR you already did the bootstrapping job many times. Yes, use it.

Are you building a project to learn? Then learn,open an empty file and start learning and building. Answer is no. For learning projects.

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Carlos Fuentes

haha, yeah, I searched in google for the name of these plugins or how can I name it and only find Scaffolding and Generators.

So true, I agree with you. A great time saver when you need it and if you have a good understanding of how it works. Thanks for the comment :)!