How to: ![✔] 7.2. Prefer native JS methods over user-land utils like Lodash
**TL;DR:** It's often more penalising to use utility libraries like `lodash` and `underscore` over native methods as it leads to unneeded dependencies and slower performance.
Bear in mind that with the introduction of the new V8 engine alongside the new ES standards, native methods were improved in such a way that it's now about 50% more performant than utility libraries.

**Otherwise:** You'll have to maintain less performant projects where you could have simply used what was **already** available or dealt with a few more lines in exchange of a few more files.

🔗 [**Read More: Native over user land utils**](./sections/performance/nativeoverutil.md)
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