I'll point out that both the React team (particularly Dan Abramov) and the Redux team (especially myself) discourage people from trying to jump into both of tho

I'll point out that both the React team (particularly Dan Abramov) and the Redux team (especially myself) discourage people from trying to jump into both of those together at once. In fact, my copy-paste answer is: > The standard advice is to focus on learning React itself first. Once you have a good understanding of how React works, you will better appreciate why a state management library like Redux can be useful. Don't over-complicate the learning process by trying to learn many different things at once. But yes, it does seem like large portions of the community insist that you _must_ use Redux with React, you _must_ use Redux right away, and even that you _must_ put _everything_ into Redux. None of which are true :)