A huge amount of this stuff is bloat, to me. It seems like this is a collection of libraries that largely were picked out of the problem that is javascript bloat today.

Use typescript and just write it to do whatever you want it to do. You don't need React, or any of this stuff. Chai is good for testing. But as far as deploying a production application, there should be literally no dependencies. You don't need them.

There is nothing today that typescript or even just raw javascript can't do perfectly fine on its own.