You can absolutely build React apps without Redux, often times however I find myself using Redux the most while communicating with the Api (Call out to the API,

You can absolutely build React apps without Redux, often times however I find myself using Redux the most while communicating with the Api (Call out to the API, get some new data, put it into the Redux store, App rerenders) so if this is just a shell, then I'm assuming it would be fairly easy to get away with not using it.