Ask HN: How do I make a website in 2023?

I haven't touched frontend code for a couple years now, but I have a long history with it. I've been making websites since I was a kid, used to write Rails apps for work, lots of JS and jQuery, various CSS frameworks, and even used React for a while when it was initially released. And lots of other frameworks of course. So I'm not new to this stuff. I just had an idea for a side project and I want to make a modern website. I spent the last 20 hours trying to figure out what the best practices are now. Everything should've gotten easier, right? It has been 10 years after all. But I'm totally lost. 4 layers of bundlers. Two layers of language abstractions. CSS frameworks that need to be compiled!? Several more layers of database abstractions and services that I have no idea what they do by looking at their landing pages. My requirements are pretty simple. I want it to work on all devices and look good. I need some user authentication and user state, but nothing c