This is mostly just a rant about someone's semantic pet peeves, in which they set up and knock down a bunch of straw men in succession. Nobody thinks you can s

This is mostly just a rant about someone's semantic pet peeves, in which they set up and knock down a bunch of straw men in succession. Nobody thinks you can start from a completely blank slate and learn something comprehensively in five minutes. But if you're already a JavaScript developer who has an environment configured, an editor you like, an understanding of what days looks like in JS, and you know what a function looks like, yeah, I can probably convey the marginal knowledge you need to know the very basics of react in about five minutes. It'd be wrong for me to act like I could teach you EVERYTHING about react development in that time, and it's equally absurd for the author to claim anyone really believes that.