I can confirm that the explosion of package managers (npm/bower), task runners (gulp/grunt), UI frameworks (foundation/bootstrap/skeleton), pre-processors (sass

I can confirm that the explosion of package managers (npm/bower), task runners (gulp/grunt), UI frameworks (foundation/bootstrap/skeleton), pre-processors (sass/less), JS frameworks (...), etc., that you can waste entirely too much time deciding between them. As an aside, I've been working on a project that uses Angular 1.3, and I'm not entirely sold yet. I do like that modules are usually contained, but the dependencies are hard to reason about (plus there's all the black magic I'm convinced they had to use to get this to work). Everything about the application feels sluggish, because there's a ton of other JS frameworks being pulled in. So whatever you do, don't mix and match 10 of them. It's painful as a user