There's a new framework every week and I feel behind before I even start. How do you choose what's worth learning?
Open any feed and it's a new tool, a new paradigm, a hot take on why the thing you just learned is already dead. I've got limited evening hours and I keep spreading them thin across five half-finished tutorials.
How do you decide what actually deserves your time? Do you follow what your job needs, what's hiring, pure curiosity, something else? Looking for a filter, not another list of 'must-learn' technologies.
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AnonymousAnon The churn is real but mostly surface. Once I noticed that 90% of the "new" frameworks are re-skins of the same handful of ideas (components, state, data fetching), the FOMO dropped a lot. Get the fundamentals deep and picking up framework #7 becomes a weekend, not a crisis.
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AnonymousAnon My filter: learn the thing my current work will touch in the next three months, and ignore almost everything else until it earns its way onto that list. The fundamentals underneath the frameworks move way slower than the hype cycle, so most of my learning time goes there. Chasing every new tool is how you end up with five half-tutorials and no depth, speaking from experience.