Are you putting react there because you consider it to have the largest learning curve? If not, I'd probably substitute Vue.

When I was first getting into reactive frontend frameworks it was part of a time-sensitive project, and we chose Vue because we could basically just write HTML and sprinkle in the reactivity. This was back in the Vue 2 days before they made everything functional, and I still think that older Vue API is the most self-explanatory for people who already know HTML and some vanilla JS.