# Stop Copying Social Code Snippets

DevFeed: [Stop Copying Social Code Snippets](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/stop-copying-social-code-snippets-29525.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://philipwalton.com/articles/stop-copying-social-code-snippets/>)

Published: 2014-04-20T23:17:32Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Philip Walton](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/philip-walton.md>)

Topics: [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>), [clean-code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/clean-code.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [browsers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/browsers.md>)

Tags: [browsers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/browsers.md>), [clean-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clean-code.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that professional web developers should avoid blindly copying prepackaged social widget code snippets. It recommends understanding and, where appropriate, improving the code to reduce unnecessary complexity and support performance, reusability, and clean code.

## Source excerpt

If you're a web developer, chances are, at some point, you've had to add a social widget to one of your page. Actually, probably more than one. And chances are you didn't want to put too much thought into it, so you just copied some code from the Internet and called it a day. Done and done.