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.
I think "JavaScript fatigue" is a problem with choosing tools, dressed up as a condition.
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. You do not need to know all of them. Pick one that you can ship with.
"But what if I pick the wrong one?" You won't. React, Vue, and Svelte are all fine. Each works and has an ecosystem, with jobs available for developers who use it. 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. Those established options are stable. You are spending too much time on comparison articles and too little on 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.
It is exhausting to sit in analysis paralysis while your competitor ships the same thing with Create React App and captures the market.
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 has not changed in two years: NestJS on the back, React or Next on the front, TypeScript everywhere, plus PostgreSQL and Redis. Neither Theo's opinion of the new thing nor the State of JS survey changes that. The apps run and my users are happy with them.
Once you stop browsing and start building, the fatigue disappears immediately.