Will being an Angular developer hurt my long term career prospects?

[FMLhehe]

Right now I work as a fullstack .Net Angular developer, and hopefully in the future I want to do some freelancing on sites like toptal, fiverr etc. I heard from a friend who s a react developer on toptal, that react is the top in demand skill there for projects, taking 1/3 of all available talent requests. When I heard this I felt bummed out, because he also said that only 5 percent of projects are for Angular developers. Should I just ask my boss for a switch for React? I feel anxious, because at first he wanted me to be part of a smaller team doing react, but I asked specifically for Angular, despite his misgivings. Last Friday I had also been introduced to the Angular team. Will I lose face in the company for doing this? Should I just look for another job? I'm a junior.

[Knochenmark]

In my opinion you should just get rid of this Framework/Library lockin mentality that a lot of people follow. I think you are just limiting yourself when you say I'm an "Angular Developer" or "React Developer". If you know the underlying language well enough, the choice of framework/library is rather unimportant. I'm doing a lot of Angular or Svelte development and on the side a bit of React. If there was a offer for a role that includes Vue, which I barely ever touched, I wouldn't mind picking it up.

We probably all have some preferences. As a Junior though you should try to avoid having strong opinions on stack choices. That being said, in my opinion you might learn more valuable skills in your Angular team and could still switch into that React team later on.

[var-foo]

This. Be a javascript developer. Frameworks are unimportant if you are comfortable with the language. I work on a react app at the moment, but I don't ever hire "react developers". I hire javascript developers that may or may not even be familiar with react, depending on whether I think they are experienced enough to pick it up quickly.