Who doesn't love an open-source solution to their JavaScript development problems? I mean…
Third-party libraries and packages are great!

Until they aren't.

Until you choose the wrong one.

Sometimes, the solutions available aren't quite the solutions you need. Picking the wrong library can introduce performance, maintainability, scalability, and security issues.

So how do you even choose?

Knowing what to look for and how to evaluate potential challenges will help you identify the packages that are most likely to minimize your pain.

Let's compare a few packages in the NPM Registry, learn how to spot red flags, assess the impact of different metrics, and rank them in order of least to most likely to use.

New talk for 2024!
Target Audience: JavaScript Developers