Best Practices Are Not Always the Best
you know what grinds my gears? when I go looking for help on a problem and the answers I get are &quot;don&#x27;t do that it&#x27;s not best practices&quot;. like not okay here&#x27;s how you do it but you shouldn&#x27;t but just flat out I&#x27;m not going to tell you. that&#x27;s the most arrogant&#x2F;presumptuous and consistent thing I&#x27;ve ever dealt with and it&#x27;s absolutely unique to software development. It completely discounts the individuals personal experience (and abilities to make the right decision for themselves) and their circumstances (the project itself) and it&#x27;s always around something dogmatic&#x2F;a reflection of fanboyism. most recently on #reactjs I wanted to know if there were a way to have locally scoped styles in react like in Vue - I got only condescension about how react is for &quot;bigboys&quot; and hence eschews the practice. Finally someone said hey maybe try styled-components, which was basically close enough and has 16,000 stars on GitHub (so I doubt it&#x27;s &quot;worst practices&quot;). software devs are some of the most zealous people I&#x27;ve ever met - everything is an opportunity to bike shed and every question or difference of opinion is an opportunity to quarterback someone else&#x27;s code base.