React itself is a view library with a very small learning curve and narrow API. You can view all the documentation on their website. It's about 5 pages. This ha

React itself is a view library with a very small learning curve and narrow API. You can view all the documentation on their website. It's about 5 pages. This has nothing to do with Facebook's scale and Facebook didn't design this complexity. Webpack isn't React, Redux isn't React, ES2015 isn't React. They're commonly used with React and add complexity to both your architecture and build step, but you're not required to use them. This tutorial is getting a lot of negative replies because it's a tutorial on all those other things in addition to React. It takes 90 pages before you write React code because the author spent a lot of it explaining how Webpack configurations work.