# Don't Roll Your Own

## Project scaffolding

When starting a new project, you can ***roll-your-own*** application build process, or start with where the general tech community has migrated towards. I hesitate to use the word "standard" build process as it has an overloaded, heavy-handed connotation.

[![xkcd - Standards](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png align="center")](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png)

Instead of "standard", I prefer the term "adopted". The open-source community has adopted modern build environment practices. Don't get me wrong, we need [web standards](https://www.w3.org/), our beloved [ECMA-262](https://www.ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/standards/ecma-262/) maintained by TC39, [IETF RFC 9293 - Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)](https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc9293.html), and many others. Standards bodies help pave the path for interoperability across industries.

Tomorrow, I will provide my chosen build environment for the [hackathon](https://builditdeploy.hashnode.dev/why-am-i-starting-on-hashnode-now-hackathon).

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Comic "Standards" by [xkcd](https://xkcd.com/927/)