The title is misleading.
Should be changed to &quot;I&#x27;m a web developer and I realized that chasing after every new tech under the sun can be counterproductive&quot;.<p>I do agree that with the semi-recent &quot;resurgence&quot; of Javascript there&#x27;s an abundance of frameworks and tools out there both for the client and server side making the selection of the &quot;ecosystem&quot; that would fit your needs challenging.<p>My take on this is stick to the basics until you realize that you need to look into something new. Client-side technology upgrades are reasonably simple as long as the client-server contract is defined up front (we doing old school gets&#x2F;posts or ajax or wss etc?).<p>Server-side decisions are a little more tricky than that but once you commit to a definite decision on the server side tech, the specifics can be worked out down the road without affecting the client.