We decided to use React for our front end. We initially thought of using vanilla JS but during our planning future-proofing our application was a concern. Though we want to keep our app lightweight, prioritizing that now but ensuring a rewrite as our app expands, is not something we wanted to do.

Out of the current top web frameworks we went with React because of the team's familiarity with it. Additionally, the facts that React has been around for so long and has a large community made us more confident that we'd be able to get the support we need.