As people here point out, using 3rd party dependencies is inevitable, unless you're a tech colossus and can afford to write everything from scratch. For the mo

As people here point out, using 3rd party dependencies is inevitable, unless you're a tech colossus and can afford to write everything from scratch. For the most part, these 3rd party dependencies work fine. In my experience it is fairly rare to encounter a show-stopping bug. I have a simple mitigation for the "potholes" though - try to take the time skim through the code of the library ahead of time and try to figure out what it is doing. That way if you do hit a problem, you can fork and fix. Doing this can also give you a sense of how well-written a library is to begin with.