Just learn javascript, or better, typescript. It's a fine language and you can do a lot of things on its own. I've have some side projects in typescript, e.g.

Just learn javascript, or better, typescript. It's a fine language and you can do a lot of things on its own. I've have some side projects in typescript, e.g. https://aperocky.com/cellular-automata/ https://aperocky.com/cellular-automata/, and none of it needed react or any of the common frameworks. Just pure HTML and javascript, turns out it's not that hard.