Topic: When not to follow industry standards #1
Description
Sometimes we just follow a standard because it's the standard, or because it's best practice.
90+% of the time, we should be following standards. But more importantly, we should be 100% of the time striving to understand the standard and why it's applicable.
One example of this is the best practice of checking in package-lock.json. I completely agree with the reasoning of why as described here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44206782/do-i-commit-the-package-lock-json-file-created-by-npm-5
Now discuss the unavoidable platform independent build that made all those arguments moot.
Discuss how the team reacted when I added package-lock.json to .gitignore.