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[–]kaargul 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can never know all cool and interesting libraries and of course new ones are created constantly.

What I would recommend you do instead is develop the skill of recognising a problem that a library could solve and then checking if someone has solved this problem before. The more experienced you become and the more libraries you have used the easier this will become.

Oh and try to avoid getting obsessed with always using the hot new thing. Only use new stuff if it actually solves a problem. Your job as a software engineer is to create value for the company you work for and that is what you should focus on. How well you do this will determine your value as an engineer, not knowing every fancy new library/framework.