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Inline: a series about owning your business logic
About The “Inline” Series
Or “how to DIY your JavaScript”
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This is a series to support you in writing your own JavaScript rather than using third-party libraries. To be clear, there are lots of excellent cases for using a third-party library. I am by no means advocating building everything yourself every time.
On the other hand, in my almost 15 years of full-time Node.js development, I have seen a lot of unhealthy practices with third-party dependencies. I’ve seen it in front-end JavaScript, too. I wrote an entire article about JavaScript dependencies, so please do read that article for a deeper dive on the topic.
If you’ve gotten this far I assume you are interested in the idea reducing your dependencies and adding simple logic directly to your project instead of NPM installing all the little helpers. I have chosen a format that works for me, and I will share it with you here.
I am not suggesting that my way is the right way.
One of the most powerful and wonderful things about JavaScript is its flexibility. There are lots of ways to write JavaScript and lots of…
