I think your use of "minimum" is wrong here. If you're using React running on Node and Webpack as your task-runner you just need Javascript and that's it.
Node allows you to run isomorphic JavaScript that runs on both your server side and client side (to ensure you don't end up with the Angular-style skeleton pages coming from the server), You can pick a nice ORM (like sequelize) to abstract away SQL, and Webpack allows modules to specify their styles in JavaScript to allow compossible CSS for each given page.
Yes this is still using a couple of frameworks, but I personally prefer the approach of a lightweight standard library to the everything-and-the-kitchen-sink approach that other languages have.
Node allows you to run isomorphic JavaScript that runs on both your server side and client side (to ensure you don't end up with the Angular-style skeleton pages coming from the server), You can pick a nice ORM (like sequelize) to abstract away SQL, and Webpack allows modules to specify their styles in JavaScript to allow compossible CSS for each given page.
Yes this is still using a couple of frameworks, but I personally prefer the approach of a lightweight standard library to the everything-and-the-kitchen-sink approach that other languages have.