I imssed it too - the NodeJS/full stack transition. For nearly a year I was just browsing frameworks... and trying everything, and a lot of it is just ugly imo. Frankly I think React is horrible and Nextjs has breaking changes from version to version. If you're old skool, you might enjoy svelte or vue.js better.

Several Bitcoin open source projects use Vue.js namely BTCPayserver and LNBits.

Good luck.