The Front-End Tooling Overwhelm: My Coping Strategy

I've stopped treating every new front-end tool as homework. I can't give all of them a fair trial, and trying leaves very little time to make anything.

My starting point is what's currently annoying me. Slow builds? Difficult tests? Repeated setup? If a tool addresses one of those, I'll read more. Otherwise it can wait. Keeping a small list of things to revisit is less distracting than installing everything as soon as I hear about it.