>And I ask myself, why did we overcomplicate front end so much and how did we get to this point? I would ask you this. You spent 5 hours fighting with React Ro

>And I ask myself, why did we overcomplicate front end so much and how did we get to this point? I would ask you this. You spent 5 hours fighting with React Router in an app that doesn't exist. What problem are you trying to solve that React Router is absolutely necessary? Are you trying to build an application that does something? Or are you trying to wire up a bunch of code that doesn't do anything but has all the most popular libraries of the day? >Is it just me, or is this too complicated for something that should be simple Both. It's not just you - a lot of people have this issue and there is some complexity here. But there is often a good reason for the complexity, and the need for complexity often comes after the simple problems have been solved. It really sounds like you're getting too far ahead of yourself chasing something that you don't need because it's what you feel you're supposed to do. I'll go back to it: what problem are you trying to solve that you need ES6 more than ES5? Or ES3? It's been my experience that people feel the fatigue when they don't have a compelling reason to use the tools they're fighting with. I don't think "there's a ton of hype around it" is very compelling personally. So my advice to fight the fatigue is solve your problems as they crop up and really take YAGNI to heart. Don't use a tool for advanced routing until you need advanced routing. You can build a React site using ES3 and script tags if you need to. You don't need a huge redux architecture when you're first starting out. Work on getting a webpage rendering "Hello, World" as soon as possible. Then, start adding the cool libraries that do all the neat stuff for you. I'd also add that in this specific case, you're dealing with a library (React Router) that just recently went from alpha and beta to stable in the new (and latest in a stream of breaking changes) version which complicates things.