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+1 to this. I wanted to build a private blogging app/site with a big focus on speed and performance, it might not be popular anymore but I went with Rails. Server-side rendering lets the browser do what it's good at. The only thing that would make pages load faster would be to stick them behind a CDN (which doesn't play nice with the privacy aspect). If anyone is interested I put up a page talking about the project: https://simpleblogs.org

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See but the parent comment is about "web applications" not "web pages". You are describing a web page - there is limited or no interactivity, what is there can be reasonably handled by forms. No one doubts that React isn't the tool for this area

Take a look at the hey email client. It's built by basecamp--the guys who created rails.

As for web app vs web page--it's a very blurry line, and it's rare that I end up building something where the entire site could be considered a web app. Usually only some small pieces of it demand enough interactivity to bother with the complexities of using a UI framework, and for that I wrap a small React or a Svelte app in a div and throw it on a page within the larger site.

> No one doubts that React isn't the tool for this area

you would think so, but there are an awful lot of people don't seemed to be stopped by that

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