Anyone out there wants to save time. Who wants to keep repeating the same mundane tasks all the time? I certainly don’t.

To save myself a bunch of time I’ve built up a snippet library and a bunch of projects on Github. Why build something a second time when you don’t have to.

Code Generators

The next step past maintaining your own snippet libraries, is using snippets from others, or using online code generator.

The big issue I have with online code generators has nothing to do with developers that could write the code on their own anyway. Just like I keep a snippet library around to speed things up, a code generator will speed things up. The issue is that they also put complex code in the hands of non-developers. When something breaks, these people that are in over their head have no idea how to get themselves back above water.

Now I’m all for saving time, but I think you should know what’s going on before you randomly grab code and stick it on your site.