You can harness your React development and support it with supplementary libraries, like Material UI or Ant Designs. Using a robust library for creating your UI design will allow you to reduce application development time. That is vital, especially when it comes to MVP building, where time is of the essence.
A downside that engineers may experience is that working with a UI library, although they are extremely customizable, sometimes pose difficulties, such as getting a date-picker component to look the way a UX/UI team or a client have envisioned it, and building up many custom components, thus defeating the purpose of using a library.
React Javascript is an indisputably great language for programming web pages and applications, and within that JS spectrum, it is still unchallenged. There are other players in the arena, but professional web app developers would confirm that React still remains on top of others in 2022.