About 8 years ago I was still mostly using jQuery to write frontend code. I felt like I must be missing something with KnockoutJs, BackboneJS, and then Angular with a lot of hype (Angular 1, of course)... but when I tried using them it was nothing but pain for me. I couldn't tell if I was just being dumb and missing the point or if some of these solutions weren't so much better than jQuery.
Then React came around and that was one that actually seemed like a step change. Not only did it become almost standard for the problems I was trying to solve, it went on to influence everything else.
I'm a React lifer (I don't do that much frontend development in general, and I still prefer vanilla JS if I can help it), but that to me was the difference between hype and substance. New stuff that has come since has had to be better than React in some way to be special and that definitely makes for better stuff.
All that is to say, sometimes a thing is worth the hype, but if you dabble in something and you're having a hard time fitting it with a real solution you'd want to build and maintain then it might be too much hype.
About 8 years ago I was still mostly using jQuery to write frontend code. I felt like I must be missing something with KnockoutJs, BackboneJS, and then Angular with a lot of hype (Angular 1, of course)... but when I tried using them it was nothing but pain for me. I couldn't tell if I was just being dumb and missing the point or if some of these solutions weren't so much better than jQuery.
Then React came around and that was one that actually seemed like a step change. Not only did it become almost standard for the problems I was trying to solve, it went on to influence everything else.
I'm a React lifer (I don't do that much frontend development in general, and I still prefer vanilla JS if I can help it), but that to me was the difference between hype and substance. New stuff that has come since has had to be better than React in some way to be special and that definitely makes for better stuff.
All that is to say, sometimes a thing is worth the hype, but if you dabble in something and you're having a hard time fitting it with a real solution you'd want to build and maintain then it might be too much hype.
Jeez. Yes. I mean jQuery seemed so cool at the time. A few years ago I moved to Angular, and it's lightyears better in every way.
I'm now working on AngularJs and updating it to Angular. AngularJs died a quick death for a good reason IMO.