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Going beyond the docs: Story of fixing the third-party code
- The article discusses the challenges of dealing with third-party code in modern application development.
- It presents a situation where following documentation doesn't resolve the issue due to specific project setups.
- The author suggests three approaches when facing such problems: flee, freeze, or fight to fix the issue.
- The specific issue shared is integrating Open Props CSS styles with a Nuxt project.
- Encountering errors due to conflicts with another dependency (@nuxt/fonts) caused the app to crash on startup.
- The author details the process of identifying the issue through GitHub discussions and issues.
- After struggling to re-configure the project, the author decided to fix the problem by adding null checks to the code.
- A pull request with the fix was made to the library's repository, which was accepted and a new version was released.
- The author also forked the repository to ensure the fix is implemented in their own version if needed.
- The article concludes by highlighting the importance of being proactive in fixing issues with third-party code and sharing success stories in the developer community.
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