If you want the bells and whistles for the UI, fine, React/Vue/Svelte will help. If you just want something that achieves the goal, without bringing new skills

If you want the bells and whistles for the UI, fine, React/Vue/Svelte will help. If you just want something that achieves the goal, without bringing new skills or dependencies, HTMX is the way. I've used HTMX with Alpine for a backend application, and they help on making the application more dynamic, along with Tailwindcss a lot of the frontend effort is complete.