To be fair, beginners should stay far away from most of the tooling around React. In-fact a lot of veterans should too. Most people only use stuff like Redux or

To be fair, beginners should stay far away from most of the tooling around React. In-fact a lot of veterans should too. Most people only use stuff like Redux or Immutable out of habit rather than necessity, or as a crutch to constrain themselves away from bad habits that they shouldn't have picked up in the first place.