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In the frontend space? When I go looking for a dependency, I check the license and I have a quick read of the code. Last time I did that was for autocomplete.
by danielheath 6y ago
In the frontend space?
When I go looking for a dependency, I check the license and I have a quick read of the code.
Last time I did that was for autocomplete. I checked the most popular six options; in the space of 2 hours, I found obvious-from-reading-code bugs in all 6.
None of them had a CLA signed by contributors, so there's really no evidence their code is genuinely available under the license they claim to offer.
I wrote my own. It took about 3 hours initially plus 2-3 hours ironing out edge cases found over the following weeks. It only added 700 bytes to my bundle.
Total time spent: 1 days work. Smaller code, loads fast, free from license issues, does exactly what I want.