“The Sound of Music” may preach, “Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start.” But almost every developer knows it is a foolish plan. The right place to start is with a firm foundation built by a great team of open source developers. Clone their hard work and then add just enough code to make it your own. There’s no need to repeat what everyone has done before.

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