I'm with ya on this. Although I mostly work on back-end, it seems like a lot of the front-end frameworks have many layered requirements to just use them. Thing

I'm with ya on this. Although I mostly work on back-end, it seems like a lot of the front-end frameworks have many layered requirements to just use them. Things like compilers, build tools, etc. just to use the framework. If you are starting a project, like others said, it is probably small so start with the minimal you need to get something working. And start with what you are most familiar with. Developers like to evaluate things and analyze to the Nth degree because it can be fun to bike shed. In reality the technology for the most part doesn't matter, especially for web stuff.