If you're gonna rant about the JS ecosystem at least get it right. You can set up a Vite + React + Tailwind setup with two commands
npm create vite
npm i @tailwindcss/vite tailwindcss
You don't need to think about React Refresh or babel or typescript, it's all handled by vite. I've never even seen a .babelrc file. And why does the author add husky?
Like, if you want to criticize JS fine, but chose valid criticisms. This just sounds like the author hasn't actually used modern js.
What about the backend? Rails covers that, your solution doesn't.
I guess I should draw the rest of the owl.
Use NextJS, then. I think everyone in this thread and the author of the post is intentionally choosing sub-optimal setups for the side they don't like.
My point is that you don't need half of the things the author thinks you need for a JS frontend with Vite, TS, React, and Tailwind....
Those two commands required earlier commands to install node and npm.
And `rails new` required me to install Ruby and Rails. I'm not sure what the point you're making is.
NPM comes with Node. And obviously you need to install node, just like you need to install Ruby....