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Discussion on: Should I write my own lib for a work project?

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Jason F

"If you are in a rush to keep up with deadlines, it's always better to use a well-documented external library." 100 times this.

I'm in a situation where a previous developer developed internal libraries, including one for state management, then bounced. The stuff works, but it's a bit unconventional. I think we would've been better off from a DX standpoint of just using one of the many well documented, well tested state management libraries that exist.

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Aleksandra Rodionova

Oh, that's a "good" one, state management is not smth you can easily replace 🤦🏼‍♀️

I feel your pain: Nobody has an idea how it works, but we still dragging it around carefully not to break it, because we don't have time to cut it out 😢