Ask HN: Help me pick a front-end framework

Hopefully this can be a fruitful discussion since I think I have a quite clear but also reasonably common set of needs. I have a feeling that if you're "in the world" of frontend engineering you get a much more intuitive feeling for these tooling questions than I can get at a distance by reading SEO-spam developer blogs and State Of JS (although the latter does seem really helpful). I'm thinking of building a text-annotation based app _alone in my spare time_. The core usage loop is about viewing and interacting with "visual markup" applied to a body of text. So lots of tooltips/hoverbars I guess. Some notes about my needs: - This would be by far the most complex GUI I've ever built. - Relatedly, I expect to get the UX design horribly horribly wrong and start from scratch at least once. - I also suck at making things look pretty and also don't find this problem very rewardinging to think or read about. - All of the above point towards a fram