You may want to consider a meta-framework for the same reason I did.
I also code on my own. I was interested in building stuff, but had little time to learn everything I needed to from the bottom up to glue everything together.
Redwoodjs uses an opinionated rails-like approach to give you cli commands to generate your code to glue things together or to do the scaffolding required for the task at hand. The tech stack used is (subjectively) a good tech stack to work with: React, GraphQL, Prisma, Typescript, Jest and Storybook. To a large degree, due to the opinionated approach, at least you find yourself using what are considered to be good patterns.
If you do go the meta-framework approach, Redwoodjs has some competition in the space who are also well regarded and worth looking at.
I also code on my own. I was interested in building stuff, but had little time to learn everything I needed to from the bottom up to glue everything together.
Redwoodjs uses an opinionated rails-like approach to give you cli commands to generate your code to glue things together or to do the scaffolding required for the task at hand. The tech stack used is (subjectively) a good tech stack to work with: React, GraphQL, Prisma, Typescript, Jest and Storybook. To a large degree, due to the opinionated approach, at least you find yourself using what are considered to be good patterns.
If you do go the meta-framework approach, Redwoodjs has some competition in the space who are also well regarded and worth looking at.