[ladidahh]

If you are looking for a front end role, a great idea, otherwise it's not a bad idea. But, I would suggest going with Next over React for static content, this a great starter https://vercel.com/templates/next.js/nextjs-boilerplate and your build process will be all set from the set and tied to the created GitHub main branch, best of luck!

[reducesuffering]

Agree, you can use the React-isms to easily compose html into reusable components while statically generating everything or React Server Components.

[emseetech]

Or they could just write html and css.

[bhhaskin]

Nextjs is the way.

[langcss]

Or Vite. It is a close call.

Vite seems to more configurable but the trade-off is you spend more time figuring out how to set stuff up like SSR and routing. NextJS had it all set up but Vercel make some weird choices like rolling out the app router and saying it is recommended when it felt very beta still.

My preferred thing is NextJS or Vite but constrain it to front end only. Use a better back end stack than Node. Any of the major ones will do.

[moomoo11]

Isn’t vite a build tool? Next js is a framework for building apps or sites.

[langcss]

Yes. It comes with a lot of features overlapp with NextJS and there are plugins for the rest.