How to learn to correctly navigate the zoo of plug-ins and modules on the web (to jQuery and various CMS)?

Question

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Good afternoon)

IMHO, one of the unpleasant features of modern programming compared to the happy 90s is a giant zoo of all kinds of plugins, modules and extensions for everything you can. When on the web it is sometimes necessary not only to write code, but to suffer with the choice of a plugin. How to learn to competently and quickly navigate in all the wild variety of this "happiness" to jQuery, Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal? It is clear that it is impossible to know all the plug-ins, unlike the programming languages ​​themselves :)

How do you find a way out of this difficulty?

Answer 1

Never in all the time of my work have I had the task of " correctly and quickly navigate all possible plug-ins ". When you come to the supermarket, you are not paralyzed at the entrance from what a huge amount of food is sold in it. You know what you came for and immediately go to the right shelf, and there you already choose from twenty varieties of milk what suits your requirements.

Answer 2

A good developer does not have a zoo of CMS - he writes on one or two. He also writes in one or two languages ​​(PHP + JS for example).
As for plugins, everything is simple - you have a dozen other periodically used plugins, for everything else there is mast ... Google.

Answer 3

Is it possible to know ALL programming languages ​​and quickly and competently navigate them in your opinion?
And it often happens that it is easier and faster to write your own code for a specific task than to spend time looking for a third-party plugin and finishing it.
And you can also quickly find something approximately suitable for the task and use it as a sample.
The variety that is now there is a blessing! Although, of course, it greatly reduces the threshold for entering the profession.
By the way, with experience, there is no need even for folders with selections ...
And your lamentations are similar to "well, that's why so many books were written, under Tsar Pea there was one book per village and that one was locked in a chest with a barn lock."