I hope this community can help me navigate a migration from CRA to the current react.dev ecosystem.

I chose Next.js because I very much want to preserve the yarn build behavior of CRA. When the front-end is finished, I want to deploy it into my existing server(s). My understanding is that this alone rules out vite. My read of the current (29-Aug-2023) react.dev site is that Next.js is the most appropriate choice for me.

My new apps need to work well with my existing technology landscape. This means at least the following:

* Host all this on my own systems (as opposed to vercel).
* Use the vscode remote debugging tools, specifically including launching the app in a Chrome browser
* The front-end must be compatible with existing and new node express services
* Use axios for all backend calls
* Use Apache for all https access to any deployed app on any of my systems
* I need to continue using environment variables for most configuration
* muiv5 for all front-end widgetry/rendering
* Continue using yarn rather than npm for most operations -- mostly because yarn is in my hands and scripts.

All of this runs on several robust AWS EC2 instances that each run current versions of Rocky Linux. I use vscode as my IDE, and all of my development is "remote" -- meaning that I rely on vscode-server. In my now-obsolete CRA/React projects, I rely on packages and scripts (in package.json) that use things like cross-env as well as environment variables already configured on each system and already used by the rest of my apps.

I invite guidance from this community about things to seek out and things to avoid as I work through the apparently excellent documentation provided here.