Exact same feeling here, well put. I recently started Tyler McGinnis' excellent React.js Fundamentals and the entire first section of the course is setting up W

Exact same feeling here, well put. I recently started Tyler McGinnis' excellent React.js Fundamentals and the entire first section of the course is setting up Webpack, Babel, etc. Once you're set up there, then you need to decide how you'll handle routing, AJAX - and so on. The older I get the more I hate third party dependencies. You're asking for trouble.