Yeah, fwiw, I am pretty good at avoiding too many shiny toys (though this project might not be a good example of that). I'm all about using React without Redux

Yeah, fwiw, I am pretty good at avoiding too many shiny toys (though this project might not be a good example of that). I'm all about using React without Redux when it makes sense, and especially at the beginning of a project. Heck, I wrote a whole book teaching React that way, and it's how I learned it myself. Wanting to use the "best practice" libraries is a different angle than what I meant though, which was more like a background thread running in my mind about how I should be refactoring things as I go. Two sides of the same coin though, in a lot of respects.