[ChemicalWarfare]

The title is misleading. Should be changed to "I'm a web developer and I realized that chasing after every new tech under the sun can be counterproductive".

I do agree that with the semi-recent "resurgence" of Javascript there's an abundance of frameworks and tools out there both for the client and server side making the selection of the "ecosystem" that would fit your needs challenging.

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/posts or ajax or wss etc?).

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.

[csbubbles]

The content of the article is read rather like "I've been stuck with the simplest app for 10 days because I didn't really want to create one". If you want to create an app, you go and create one. If you want to play with a bunch of fancy frameworks, just don't call it "create an app", as apparently it isn't...