Every time I look up the news, there is some new framework or library making the rounds in the Web Dev world. If a dev only knows MEAN stack, how is he able to get a job when each company has it’s own set of frameworks and libraries that they use. Do web devs have to learn everything from scratch when joining a company that uses a technology that a web dev doesn’t know ?
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To answer your question directly, companies usually don’t *require* experience with a framework. They might say “experience with react or similar.” Additionally, companies don’t have room to be picky right now, because experienced devs are in tight supply. Those together mean that a company will hire someone without specific experience with a framework.
Also, the number of frameworks is honestly overblown. React absolutely dominates, with Angular, Vue, and Svelt having less use. Everything else is under 10% usage. So you’re more likely to find a “big name framework” like react in use at bigger companies because it’s easier to hire for. So you just likely won’t come into contact with *that* many frameworks in your professional life.
The other aspect is that most of the web dev content seems to be published by people with little experience in the field yet. Obviously there are exceptions, but huge amounts of the dev.to and medium articles are folks just starting to learn, and using blogging to learn and to pad their resumes. So “hot new framework” or “trying out X” really doesn’t make a huge impact on most web devs.
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