The trick is - don't try and learn all this shit at once. Make a react app without any extra state management. Just store your state at the top and pass shit do

The trick is - don't try and learn all this shit at once. Make a react app without any extra state management. Just store your state at the top and pass shit down. Add more stuff until it starts to get annoying passing all the callbacks back up. Now you are ready for redux cos you understand what it is saving you from. React itself is actually really simple and a nice way to make complicated UI.