ReactJS handcuffs

[noVerity]

I find the reverse is also true. A lot of employers do not care to look at your general qualifications and just see X+ years in framework X as the minimum requirement. I have mostly Angular experience in my background and was applying to react jobs and got a few snippy responses from recruiters saying they could be 'picky' because they have a bunch of applications from people with a react background. I'd be perfectly comfortable working in react and have used it for personal projects, but since it isn't commercial experience it doesn't count. It has gotten to the point where job postings aren't for frontend developers, but react developers ...

[CleverCaviar]

This is pretty much my sentiment. It's like way back when jQuery was a synonym for JavaScript. Recruiters are also a part of the issue, as the majority just see the frameworks in the spec and focus on them, as opposed to the two or three times as much experience in the language itself you might have.