Surely this line of thinking has the potential to lead to "I know NextJS best so every problem looks like a NextJS problem" ? If you limit yourself to the surfa

Surely this line of thinking has the potential to lead to "I know NextJS best so every problem looks like a NextJS problem" ? If you limit yourself to the surface area of one tool, you become reliant on the authors of that tool to solve the problems you need solved. Then if that tool declines for some reason you have to look for another tool that solves all the same set of problems for you. Not to mention you'll probably find your job opportunities limited if you're all in on one tool. I think you are spot on when you say learn the underlying fundamentals but that should be extended to the web platform. Learn how to manage state outside of your favorite library. Learn how to cache your assets and HTTP responses using service workers. Learn the general ideas behind MVVM views so you can look at another library, get the gist and get going. My best lecturer in college told us that he wasn't teaching us specific algorithms or MVC or the DOM APIs. He was teaching us how to learn. That there are common patterns and fundamentals and "new" things are usually similar to existing things in some way. Usually when I see some new frontend library, I see a concept that has been recycled or stolen from some other library and presented as new. I don't believe there is much novel work being done put out there. Even stuff that qualifies as somewhat novel like Svelte is really just a refinement of the road React started us down. It probably takes a bit of work, and sometimes luck, to figure out what's transient and whats important universal stuff but once you start looking at things that way, it makes it a lot easier to appraise the new stuff and figure out if its worth your time or not. Then if you need to solve a problem its not about how NextJS can be twisted to fit it but just taking the components you need and assembling them in a way that makes sense. Maybe this approach just requires more learning than is reasonable for most people, I don't know. I personally like learning, seeing what makes things tick and how everything fits together.