Thankfully, I've never had to deal with routing in any of the applications I've worked with. (Primarily internal stuff that is true "applications in a browser"

Thankfully, I've never had to deal with routing in any of the applications I've worked with. (Primarily internal stuff that is true "applications in a browser", rather than stuff addressable by sub-URLs.) So, I've managed to avoid all this complexity. Wasn't until relatively recently that I even understood what client-side routing actually involves. Personally, I think that routing in general is one of the major causes of "Javascript Fatigue", and is proof that building complex software is inherently complex. I will say that despite its "de-facto standard" nature, there's certainly a number of other options out there. I keep a list of Redux-related addons and utilities, and there's a couple dozen entries in the "Routing" category (https://github.com/markerikson/redux-ecosystem-links/blob/master/routing.md https://github.com/markerikson/redux-ecosystem-links/blob/ma...). Again, I haven't used any of them myself, but they exist. And that's _just_ "libs that relate to routing and Redux", much less "libs that relate to routing and React, or routing in general".