Justin Rice

JavaScript and TypeScript are both amazing languages that can be used to create incredible applications. With JavaScript, you can create dynamic and interactive web applications. With TypeScript, you can create even more sophisticated applications by taking advantage of the power of Typescript's type system. Both languages are powerful and fun to use, and I highly recommend learning them both!

It will really help you solidify your understanding of a programming language and how JS works. This will be beneficial when you go and learn other languages. Rather than learning from scratch, you will get to compare it to JS and learn them faster.

The real question here is: "What is the best way to deploy a decentralized application with a React front-end."

Building a decentralized application and integrating things such as Metamask require you to write smart contracts. This process is language agnostic as long as the smart contract is written and deployed to the chosen blockchain correctly.

Using classic Full-Stack HTTP Application frameworks like Django will no longer work because when we create something with Django, the server is centralized, defeating the purpose of the Blockchain architecture.

That being said, now the question is, what programming language do you want to use to deploy this decentralized application? - https://eth-brownie.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ - is a Python framework for writing smart contracts.

As you have already learned and built with React, you might be better off sticking with the same runtime. NodeJS does have frameworks for deploying decentralized applications called the truffle suite: https://trufflesuite.com/.

This is a whole set of tools for writing decentralized applications using JavaScript and TypeScript.

Hope this helps.