Use you experience
I have been weighting various options, trying to pick and choose the right tool for the job for almost a week now. This is what every experienced developer does naturally. After all, why would you at the leap of faith and pick the first, possibly worse option?
But here lies the hidden wisdom: most of the time your hunch is true. Sure, you can try and rationalise a better option. It can even be somewhat better than the 10 previous ones. But you shouldn’t dismiss the hunch - embrace it.
Why? Well, considering you are an experienced developer… you have experience. And that experience isn’t just plain systematic knowledge. Experience is usually much more. You can even call it somewhat ephemeral, in a way.
Your whole life’s experience plays part in all your decisions. It is a complex intertwining of emotions you experienced, the talks you have experienced; activities, media, unexpected meetings and long faded memories — all of them build up to your own personal experience.
Which you can use to pick your next JS framework.
Which might not be the next hot thing, but for which you have a deeper and more intimate connection that might last longer than the lifespan of the framework itself.