Seeing what developers prefer and recommend is a better way to get in front of the trends than looking at what codebases companies are (stuck) maintaining. Unf

Seeing what developers prefer and recommend is a better way to get in front of the trends than looking at what codebases companies are (stuck) maintaining. Unfortunately the JavaScript ecosystem is frothy enough that a lot of junior developers are inevitably going to waste time learning technologies that will be considered obsolete by the time they have mastered them. Seeing what people are hiring for is of course a useful signal too but it's easy to become a COBOL programmer if that's the only thing you look at.