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What's the problem with "hand-rolled components"? Isn't that pretty much the essence of building non-trivial frontend stuff? Or does this have some special me

• Tade0 8y ago
  Not in the case of components which could easily be replaced with a well-tested and proven solution. Notable among the ones in this project was the date picker - there's a decent number of those available and yet somebody made the decision to hand-roll it. The result was a mess that for some reason had a 300 LOC service as a part of it. Needless to say minimal tests. It was a waste of man-days in a project that was already over budget.
  • rhinoceraptor 8y ago
    There are a lot of date pickers, however if you have a specific UI and UX to implement, it might not be worth trying wrangle one of them into doing what you need it to do. There's so many integration points (business logic, i18n/l10n, styling, keyboard navigation, accessibility, etc) that I think it's often easier to write your own. Hopefully now that most browsers support <input type="date" />, we can just use that most of the time.