Sounds like you're confusing 'simple' with 'easy'. Rich Hickey does a good job of contrasting the two in Simple Made Easy[0]. The essential part of Redux is on

Sounds like you're confusing 'simple' with 'easy'. Rich Hickey does a good job of contrasting the two in Simple Made Easy[0]. The essential part of Redux is only 44 lines of simple code [1]. You can understand everything that it is doing. That is simple. It doesn't mean that it's going to be a great experience to work with (you might want to add some abstraction on top to make it also 'easy'), but it is definitely simple. [0]: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy [1]: https://gist.github.com/gaearon/ffd88b0e4f00b22c3159#file-slim-redux-js-L56-L99 https://gist.github.com/gaearon/ffd88b0e4f00b22c3159#file-sl...