I love a lot of things about the Node ecosystem, but the fact that being out of it for 6 to 12 months means you fall behind is not great.
Yeah, I totally feel you with falling behind regarding the full-stack web dev with node/react, the pace is incredible.
I started down the road with TypeORM for my starter, and I ran into several pain points. I was reading the Knex docs last night actually, heavily considering switching. I also wrote a quick `pg.ts` file to just use node-postgres directly, but the lack of migrations is just too painful. I looked at db-migrate briefly but didn't come to any conclusion.
So that's a long way of saying, I think Knex was a good choice. Provides migrations, handles connection pooling and transactions, but doesn't deviate too far from SQL.
My stack currently is mostly ReactJS, ReactNative, Flow, GraphQL, Sequelize, Postgres, Apollo and NodeJS
Anyway, in order to change it, you should discard everything non-nextjs and non-docker related from the client/ folder, like client/common/, client/components/, client/helpers (except client/helpers/configureGraphQL.ts), client/icons, client/layouts, client/theme, client/pages/{login.tsx|signup.tsx|dashboard/}, remove the material-ui related stuff from package.json and then proceed installing the SemanticUI.
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So I created such a stack - the Knests stack (https://github.com/tudorconstantin/knests).
I actually started to work on this in December, but I published it a few days ago.
Please beware that in order to use it for your projects right now you'd have to be quite comfortable with the nodejs ecosystem because the whole stack is not quite tidied up.