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Stop copy-pasting Stack Overflow answers into your projects, read the docs instead
Spent 3 weeks fighting a bug in my React app because I copied a workaround from a 2018 Stack Overflow post. Turned out the library changed its API twice since then, and the fix was one line in the official docs. I finally sat down last Tuesday and read the whole intro guide for the version I actually had installed. Took me 45 minutes max, and it solved the problem plus two other things I didn't even know were broken. Anyone else waste way too long on forum answers before checking the official stuff first?
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riley432mo ago
That one hits close to home. I burned a full weekend once on a database connection issue that turned out to be a deprecated flag from an old version. The weird part is the docs were right there on the same page, I just never scrolled down far enough. These days I force myself to check the official changelog first, but the old habit of grabbing a snippet and moving on is still tough to break.
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