Web development appears to have a furious rate of change so keeping up can be overwhelming. In reality, though, stable changes don’t happen that often. To put things into perspective: the hottest JavaScript framework right now, React.js, was created four years ago. jQuery is ten years old and is still on 70% of the top 10k websites. One sane approach is to avoid the hype train and stay on firm ground. Sometimes it’s a good idea to watch the framework jostling from a distance. That said, front-end web development has reached an unprecedented level of maturity, and there’s a lot of warranted excitement.
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