Correct, because none of those are needed for use with React itself, and different applications will use a wide variety of different libraries (Redux vs MobX, e

Correct, because none of those are needed for use with React itself, and different applications will use a wide variety of different libraries (Redux vs MobX, etc). Also, the phrase "doesn't differentiate between smart and dumb components" is pretty irrelevant in this discussion, because that's merely a conceptual distinction. I did actually open up a discussion a couple days ago asking for discussion on what kinds of "official Redux-based addons" might look like: https://github.com/reactjs/redux/issues/2295 https://github.com/reactjs/redux/issues/2295 . Possible ideas include things like a small "redux-starter" wrapper library that sets up a store with sensible defaults. Dan Abramov also tossed out a list of ideas for a hypothetical more in-depth integrated library built on top of Redux's core behavior.