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Frank Carr

Based on my current job search, I'd say Angular mixed with .NET web services is rather popular right now. This might change since front end frameworks are fickle. If you know Javascript basics along with some Typescript and JQuery you should be able to adapt to sudden but inevitable changes.

Learning HTML5 and CSS3 will be helpful and that's more framework independent.

On EF, I'd echo the recommendation to learn more about what goes on in the DB. There will be times when EF will fail you, most often when you have to deal with legacy data. Dapper or even a lighter weight data-to-object mapping system might be the better choice.

Azure and AWS are popular right now. The same seems to be true of NoSQL DB's like Hadoop. However, the implementation of them seems to be a bit unsettled so far. Everybody wants to use them but most don't seem to have a good plan behind the idea.