However, the post indicates React + Redux for the front-end. Perhaps it's my bias as a back-end curmudgeon, but those strike me as _unboring_ choices in the front end, particularly if you're not targeting SPAs.

My point being: one person's "boring" could be another person's anything from "clunky and archaic" to "faddy" to "efficient and sensible." Not even Rails, built upon Ruby's idiosyncratic blood magick, is an entirely uncontroversial choice.