A useful read for sure. However, I wonder about the choice of React (or any SPA framework) if you say you are not designing for scalability. You said that the

A useful read for sure. However, I wonder about the choice of React (or any SPA framework) if you say you are not designing for scalability. You said that the product is quite basic/boring and I have yet to see how this wouldn't be much easier to produce in any MVC server-side framework than any frontend framework. If you are used to .Net, you could choose dotnet core MVC (was that around then?), which is super fast and easy to deploy on Docker but also Ruby, PHP etc to suit your taste/experience. The SPA approach means a frontend and a backend developed separately and unless you have FB scale issues and want to move as much work to the browser as possible, the only time I would choose SPA would be if I was most familiar with React/Angular/Vue/Javascript.