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Noelle Huling
2,671 PointsUsing Libraries in Web Development
Hi there!
I'm working through the Front-End Web Development course right now. It's really rewarding to see my progress and I'm looking forward to being able to eventually do this professionally!
I was talking to my brother the other day, and he said most people in Web Development won't write out their own code for most of the elements of a page, but will instead look up pre-written code in a library for a given element and copy-paste to save time.
I already knew that anyone writing code will end up using references rather than writing completely from memory. But using references as needed doesn't seem to be the same thing as actually doing a lot of copy-pasting like my brother is talking about. I think he was referring to code you could technically write yourself, but didn't for the sake of time.
Can someone explain the difference to me?
And then, more specifically, can you tell me what it's like to develop websites professionally? Do you design your own elements yourself or borrow heavily from libraries? Or does it just depend--and if so, how? Examples are welcome.
The idea of designing my own elements rather than doing a lot of copy-paste work is a heck of a lot more appealing to me, but I'm wondering if that's just unrealistic.
Any insight would be welcome!!