[gramstrong]

I don't think you are really going to have to concede to the latest hotness for a very long time. There's still plenty of jobs for building and maintaining PHP + jQuery applications. Shoot, I spent a lot of time at my last job maintaining Classic ASP serving up HTML. React isn't going anywhere.

[darpa_escapee]

This. Even if everyone started their new projects with Vue today, there will be legacy React codebases out in the wild for a long time to come.

> PHP + jQuery applications.

As much as people like to detract, Wordpress and friends power a significant portion of the web. The PHP market is pretty big.