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2025-12-16//RANT

JavaScript Fatigue Is Not Real, You're Just Bad at Choosing

Every six months someone publishes a blog post titled "JavaScript Fatigue Is Killing Me" and it goes viral because developers LOVE agreeing that things are hard. Here's the thing: JavaScript fatigue is not a real condition. It's a skill issue. Specifically, it's a decision-making skill issue. The JavaScript ecosystem has a lot of options. This is objectively true. React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, Qwik, Angular, Astro, Next, Nuxt, SvelteKit, Remix, and I could keep going. But here's what nobody wants to admit: YOU DON'T NEED TO KNOW ALL OF THEM. Pick one. Ship with it. Done. "But what if I pick the wrong one?" You won't. React, Vue, and Svelte are all fine. They all work. They all have ecosystems. They all have jobs. The difference between them matters far less than the difference between shipping and not shipping. "But there's a new framework every week!" No there isn't. There's a new EXPERIMENT every week. The core options have been stable for years. React has been the dominant choice since 2016. Vue has been the alternative since 2017. Svelte has been the cool option since 2019. Angular has been the enterprise option since forever. These are not new. These are not changing. YOU are just reading too many comparison articles instead of writing code. The people who complain about JavaScript fatigue are the same people who spend three weeks evaluating state management libraries for a project that could have used useState. They read 14 articles about whether Zustand or Jotai or Valtio is better when their app has two pieces of global state: the user object and a theme toggle. You know what causes real fatigue? Not shipping. Sitting in analysis paralysis while your competitor builds the same thing with Create React App and captures the market. THAT is exhausting. The developers who actually build things don't complain about fatigue. They picked their tools years ago and they're too busy shipping to read your think piece about how Bun is going to change everything. My stack hasn't changed in two years. NestJS on the back. React or Next on the front. TypeScript everywhere. PostgreSQL. Redis. Done. I don't care what Theo thinks about the new thing. I don't care what the State of JS survey says. My stack works. My apps run. My users are happy. Stop browsing. Start building. The fatigue will disappear immediately.
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