I wouldn’t put all my eggs in one basket, things evolve rapidly on this front, 5 years is impossible to forsee

>"One is because it's the right tool. "

Yeah sure. You choose the right tool because it it the right tool.

>"The second is to do with the JS tech battlefield - you pick React because it won the front-end popularity fight"

If we always pick "most popular" there will be only one left.

>"you can hire React developers, and you can hire them knowing they will want to stay React developers etc."

I guess some big companies might hire narrow scope developers (and throw those away when they the size of tool they were using changed from 9mm to 10mm). Me being more down to Earth I prefer to look at the resume and list of accomplished projects and hire persons who are creative and do not get fixated on a single thing.

>"Also you might pick React for your own CV!"

Sorry, no ;) I pick projects for money and being interesting. Using XYZ language/framework does not come as a reason into that picture for me.

I agree with you on all these points! However the "market" behaves the way it behaves (in general), and we need to try to avoid the 99% of it.

I like operating in niche markets. So far (fingers crossed) it pays my bills and frankly being independent I do not worry too much about common trends. Only what concerns me directly. Not that I am being ignorant, I constantly read stuff/play with it but as long as I can afford it I prefer to go the way I find suitable from my perspective. Do not give a hoot about some abstract everybody does this/that spoonfed by big companies.

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