@epidiah I've been burned by various JS libraries frequently enough, that I've went back to the old standbys that never changes.
Vanilla JS + jquery + lodash. Then highly specialized libraries if I need something else.
If you're doing node, though, then all bets are off.
@epidiah don't think of it as wasted time. There's no way you spent months on it without learning something and that will likely be useful down the line.