I have seen plenty of people breadboard pretty big 74LS projects with out any issues, most of the stuff I do is pretty low noise RF mixed with digital and hi power, so im pretty use to figuring out noise issue's, dealing with ringing etc. The thing is I don't want to deal with any of that crap while learning, hence why im not starting with the fastest logic chips I can. I would assume from some of the messy TTL projects I have seen that a good star grounding and decoupling rules of thumb like a .1uF on every chip along with a 1uf and 10uf for every 5 or 10 chips should be fine.
"Ringing" isn't an appropriate concept, since that is associated with second (and higher) order filters.
If you are used to RF, you will know about transmission lines. Improper termination causes problems. The maximum wire length for which you can ignore transmission line effects depends solely on the transition time. For a quick intro, one place to start is
https://www.edn.com/category/blog/bogatins-rules-of-thumb/Power supply decoupling is required to deal with current transients due to changing voltage across capacitors and (with TTL, HTTL, STTL, LSTTL, FTTL) inputs consuming different current in the high and low state.
Decouplers need to have very short leads; you used to be able to buy flat capacitors that fitted under ICs and sockets with a built in capacitor under the IC.
Ideally you would have a solid ground plane and Vcc plane. On a two-sided board that would only be possible if you hand-wire all the signal connections.
For LSTTL an acceptable alternative is to have wide Vcc/GNd traces running under a row of ICs on the topside, and these should both be connected at both ends (don't have two interlocking fingers, one from each end). Put the 100nF decouplers on those traces by each IC. Add occasional "extra" grid grounds between the rows of ICs, to approximate a ground plane.
Wirewrap is OK for LSTTL but you have to be careful with faster families, and it fails for modern logic.
IDC is better than wirewrap, but I don't know if you can get the boards anymore.