you're right there is a lot of tooling/layers if it helps, Apollo has Redux built into it so you don't need a store. With this I reduced the size of my small a

you're right there is a lot of tooling/layers if it helps, Apollo has Redux built into it so you don't need a store. With this I reduced the size of my small app quite significantly by removing reducers, actions and the store files. I've been using React + Apollo + GraphQL on the frontend and Graph.cool as a BaaS which has been great so far.... admittedly I'm a beginner (starting from my experience as a Java developer 7 years ago)