135 © Bryan Lim and Richard LaFranchi 2019 B. Lim and R. LaFranchi, Vue on Rails, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5116-4_6 CHAPTER 6 Building an Image- Cropping Tool with Vue and Active Storage You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the pur- pose of life, partly. Your life is better. —Yukihiro Matsumoto As developers, we often look to third-party libraries for solutions to problems that aren’t easily solved or problems that we are not familiar with. This can be advantageous if we need to build a quick prototype, but there are downsides to this approach such as: • Needing to rely on support for the library. • Implementing with technologies such as Vue and Rails may not be straightforward.