While popularity might not have anything to do with your use case, it still means a lot in terms of ecosystem, tooling, training, support and documentation.
In the React ecosystem, there are several really good tools for managing build, deploy, and test harnesses. See kyt [1] for example, or the list of Create React App Alternatives [2].
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While popularity might not have anything to do with your use case, it still means a lot in terms of ecosystem, tooling, training, support and documentation.