If you asked 100 people this question, I'll make an educated guess that a high percentage will tell you to learn technology X because the latest survey from Y says it's one of the highest demand and highest paying in this industry.
This isn't necessarily bad advice, but if you're just starting out in this industry I'll give you the following advice:
Just do something. It doesn't matter what language you're coding in, or what frontend framework you're using, it's more important to be doing something on a regular basis.
Do what you enjoy. Don't bother learning JavaScript if you don't enjoy the language.
Once you're more experienced, you'll be able to look at industry/market trends and choose what to learn based on that and, providing you've made it that far because you stuck with it (because you enjoyed what you were doing), you'll find it much easier learning a second language than your first.
If you asked 100 people this question, I'll make an educated guess that a high percentage will tell you to learn technology X because the latest survey from Y says it's one of the highest demand and highest paying in this industry.
This isn't necessarily bad advice, but if you're just starting out in this industry I'll give you the following advice:
Just do something. It doesn't matter what language you're coding in, or what frontend framework you're using, it's more important to be doing something on a regular basis.
Do what you enjoy. Don't bother learning JavaScript if you don't enjoy the language.
Once you're more experienced, you'll be able to look at industry/market trends and choose what to learn based on that and, providing you've made it that far because you stuck with it (because you enjoyed what you were doing), you'll find it much easier learning a second language than your first.
I totally agree, I was going to say the same thing, just do something you enjoy.
After you learn a couple of frameworks or languages it becomes a lot easier to dig into a new one, as they have a lot of commonalities.