React, Webpack, Eslint, Jest, React Testing Library
That’s the standard setup nowadays and it’s what most people should go with. If you want type checking, add TS to the mix.
But seriously, just use Next.js you can build tiny static sites with it and you can build complex SPAs. It’s very lightweight and basically just strings together all these tools while adding some convention that you can follow if you wish.
Would you please send a link that summarizes this "everything else"? Every time I take a look at JS ecosystem I get lost.