[ams6110]

whatever choice "I" make, will turn out wrong in the long run

Get used to that feeling if you want to be a web developer. You are in one of the most "churning" areas of software technology. None of today's popular JS frameworks were around even a few years ago, and in a few years time I expect we'll see an entirely new set of popular frameworks.

Forget about the "long run." Pick something with a decently-sized community of users and support. Learn it well enough to do what you want to do. Expect to throw that away and learn something else next year. The era of actually achieving "mastery" of any development tools is long gone, at least in the world of web front-end development.

[mgkimsal]

" None of today's popular JS frameworks were around even a few years ago, and in a few years time I expect we'll see an entirely new set of popular frameworks."

You're right, but what needs also to happen is for many others to lose the attitude that others are "doing it wrong" if they don't immediately intuit every nuance of some new library that's 3 months old and was only written for one use case, but touted as the latest hotness which suddenly you're forced to use at work (for example).

I'm fine with understanding the churn and rapid pace - what I don't appreciate is the attitude that just because everything's not 100% obvious to me that somehow it's my fault, when there's little to no docs, no test cases, and a README file that shows a trivial hello world.

[sahrizv]

By "in the long run" I meant the course of my web app development and enhancement. But I feel happy that there is a consensus on transient utility of these technologies. Community size is a strong factor for me but (un)fortunately both ember and angular have large communities. Thanks a lot for your guidance, esp. the last sentence.

[dgerges]

So true. So frustrating.