So my best experience over the past year in the front end world (React only), has been with Vite using the react-typescript template. You get to use es modules

So my best experience over the past year in the front end world (React only), has been with Vite using the react-typescript template. You get to use es modules (modern js) without any trouble and typescript just works. For css, I usually don’t bother with any advanced framework, I commonly go with mui, but you can just do css files or css in js.