Wow, all that and you STILL don't have a working blog. If you're thinking "hey I wanna learn react/express/mongoDB" then have at it. No harm there, of course.

Wow, all that and you STILL don't have a working blog. If you're thinking "hey I wanna learn react/express/mongoDB" then have at it. No harm there, of course. But if you just want to start a blog, this is not the way to do it. Nor does this solution make much sense as a blogging solution, because it has such a setup cost. running a one-liner rails generate command gets you 80% to complete pretty damn quickly. Or there's wordpress... or octopress hosted on github (what I do). I'm all for exploring technology, but I don't think there is enough focus on discussion for right tooling for the job. Too often I see links to overly complicated solutions to problems that have much simpler solutions available. I would rather see these technologies explored in the scenarios where I'd actually want to consider using them, because knowing when to use a tool is just as important as knowing how to.