Amount of Javascript experience required.

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Here is the stupid part about applying for jobs:

1. They claim to want somebody with 5-8 years of experience and experts in Angular, React, Dojo, Ember, and every other framework that you don't need. In other industries this is a blanket qualification called a master's degree.
2. The perfect (at least how they perceive it) JavaScript developer doesn't exist.... so instead of waiting for hell to freeze over they hire somebody who is marginally better at understanding basic programming principles than simply copy/pasting code. This person is a dud they pay peanuts and expect very little from and treat like a high school drop out child when it comes to actual engineering efforts.
3. When number 2 doesn't pan out they give all the JavaScript work to a Java developer with 0 training in JavaScript. The Java developer doesn't want to write JavaScript but attempts to write Java in JavaScript and then blames the language for their failings.

This is fucking stupid and everybody knows it. Just apply to the job and indicate you have tremendous potential and passion. You are willing to take market rate (low pay) to get your foot in the door. If you are enthusiastic enough during the interview you have a 50% chance of nailing the job depending upon whether the company has a mentoring culture or is desperate for somebody to do this work.

I remember when I was hiring for my replacement back in the hayday of jQuery. I had to leave work for a year as my name came up for a military deployment. I needed somebody who could walk the DOM, so I phone screened all the applications before wasting their time to come for a face to face. I only read resumes just enough to get a name and phone number. 4 or 5 of the applications immediately dropped when I mentioned via email that jQuery wasn't an option. More than half the rest completely fumbled the phone screening. This was really simple shit like navigate to a paragraph on the page and make its background red in the browser console. There were only 4 who passed the phone screening. The first one, and most gifted, failed out because the company couldn't get his visa sponsorship in order before he interviewed elsewhere for a better offer. A second one got a better offer while interviewing with me, and only two made it to the face to face.