Hello.

I have been a software developer for the last 14 years. I've exclusively worked in application and game development for mobile and desktop.

I'm proficient in C#, C/C , Objective-C, Java and Lua. I know some PHP and basic HTML.

I'm looking for a change and want to move into web development. I'm extremely confused due to huge amount of languages, frameworks and so on.

When I worked as a mobile developer, things were simple. You picked your SDK or wrote your own or just did native code per platform (iOS/Android).

For web dev... I wanted to get into backend development. It seemed like ASP.NET MVC 5 was a natural move for me, due to my C# experience.

But from looking around at what clients expect a backend developer to know, it just seems overwhelming. Most required ASP.net, JavaScript, HTML5, jQuery, Angular amoungst several other things.

I'm just so confused. I'd love a straight answer as to what I need to learn and why.

It just seems web development is so fragmented, and everyone expects you to know multiple different technologies and there isn't a one size fits all.

I think it's fair that I'd be expected to know some front-end development (HTML, CSS and some JS perhaps), but not all these other things that seemingly don't fit. e.g. Were does Angular fit in to this puzzle?

Can someone please point me in the right direction?

Thank you