I love React and would recommend it as the primary frontend library. However, I would suggest avoiding the Material UI component library entirely (as I believe

I love React and would recommend it as the primary frontend library. However, I would suggest avoiding the Material UI component library entirely (as I believe it’s both difficult to customise and over-engineered) and just write SASS to start off. If you really like how Angular 1 worked (writing templates instead of JS to represent DOM) then Vue is a great choice.