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Discussion on: Which JavaScript frameworks are worth learning in 2021?

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As primarily a backend developer I would be happy to recommend NestJS w/ fastify adapter. My team and I spent a bunch of time researching which framework gave us tools to implement business logic without too much bloat. We looked at minimalist ones like express/koa to full stack like sailsjs. We found NestJS to be a happy path for us in terms of features without being overbearing. Our internal tests found NestJS using the fastify adapter to be about 3.5x faster than express which was a nice bonus.

As far as front end, I would be happy to recommend Vue or back to basics VanillaJS. Vue is great for building all kinds of apps and my brain finds it much much easier to use than React for data driven applications which is all work on. And honestly I think it is important to know how the browser works so no framework is good to know.