I use 3rd party libraries until I hit a tipping point where either the effort to implement is looking to be greater than the effort to simply write the baseline functionality I need from it. The basic idea is to get it to fill in the functionality you need to prove your point and then rewrite it as your needs increase, or if you're like me, are OCD about a consistent code base.
Instead of writing from scratch, I tend to copy and paste whatever I can salvage and build from there, typically refactoring the original code into something new entirely.
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Right on the money.
I use 3rd party libraries until I hit a tipping point where either the effort to implement is looking to be greater than the effort to simply write the baseline functionality I need from it. The basic idea is to get it to fill in the functionality you need to prove your point and then rewrite it as your needs increase, or if you're like me, are OCD about a consistent code base.
Instead of writing from scratch, I tend to copy and paste whatever I can salvage and build from there, typically refactoring the original code into something new entirely.