This was the first thing I noticed as well. 40% of the tutorial is setup. It doesn't HAVE to be that painful just to get a working environment going, but it get

This was the first thing I noticed as well. 40% of the tutorial is setup. It doesn't HAVE to be that painful just to get a working environment going, but it gets painful pretty quickly if you pile on Webpack and PostCSS and a testing setup and everything. For true "Hello World", if all you just want is to play around with React without all the setup, try out quik[0] or react-heatpack[1]. I also wrote up a tutorial[2] using react-heatpack that gets a working Hello World in UNDER 3 page-downs :) [0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/quik https://www.npmjs.com/package/quik [1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-heatpack https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-heatpack [2] https://daveceddia.com/test-drive-react/ https://daveceddia.com/test-drive-react/