Author here. I would add that doing things on your own, which is probably never optimal from time perspective, may open doors to solutions that you haven't see

Author here. I would add that doing things on your own, which is probably never optimal from time perspective, may open doors to solutions that you haven't seen before. I recently experienced this is by not going through the beaten path - installing well-known dependencies and building solution based on that. I chose to experiment a bit and it turned out that I usually use small % of imported code. It really changed how I look at dependencies.