Yash, thanks for writing this, I'm looking forward to the next articles!
I agree this (MERN/PERN) is today the go-to stack for full-stack web dev.
That's why I thought you might find wasp-lang.dev helpful - it's literally the fastest way to get started with React, Node.js and Prisma (which is an ORM for Mongo/Postgres) and takes away a ton of boilerplate.