[marchingtomars]

Definitely stick with the more mature things and the things other things are based on.

Example: If you’ve learned React, stick with it or React-native. Don’t learn a React derivative such as Next.

I think it just takes a bit of experience and chatting with other devs, and comparing libraries’ popularity metrics and reviews, to get a sense of where the ecosystem is headed in terms of framework/library traction.

Definitely don’t unfocus and learn random things. Learning should be a strategy towards a goal.

In my case it’s to have corporate in-demand skills and skills I can use to build my own projects. So, I focus on React, Node, PSQL, AWS tools, etc. while occasionally researching new tools and dabbling.

For example I’ve recently begun dabbling with Parcel, but only because I see it as relatively accepted in the community via chatrooms, forum posts, and articles. Otherwise I’d stick with webpack for reactjs compilation.