tl;dr: Start Simply: Use, build, learn what you need when you need it. Simply Start: Don’t let everything get in the way of doing something. There’s been a lot of talk, writing, presentations, and tweeting over the past year-ish about the sheer pace of development, proliferation of tools, and overall craziness of the JavaScript universe. Whether it’s been endless framework proliferation, tooling insanity, or whatever else, I’ve gotten the sense that people are equally as excited about the new things people are doing with JavaScript as they are fatigued and overwhelmed by everything.