> If you start by following most react tutorials, they will make you begin with something way more complicated that it needs to be and you will get discouraged.

> If you start by following most react tutorials, they will make you begin with something way more complicated that it needs to be and you will get discouraged. Can't agree more with this. There are quite a few reasons I think those starter-kits and tutorials are very harmful especially to new developers. Figuring out how your tsconfig/webpack/babelrcs/state-handlers/etc all fit together should be something that should certainly be done and learned incrementally. Perhaps the issue is the amount of boilerplate you need to start a simple app. There should be a flask[1] like starter for react/vue apps. Parcel seems like the closest thing but its still not obvious to me why they demo 4 files to get started [2] -- we already dynamically transforming and compiling everything why not just have a single `index.js` with a Index/Main entrypoint? Is there anything out there to do something as simple as: import * as React from "react" import {Html, Body, Title} from "parcel" const Index = () => { return ( <Html> <Title>MySite</Title> <Body> <h1>Hello world!</h1> </Body> </Html> ) } with a `cmd {run,build} index.{jsx,tsx}` [1] https://github.com/pallets/flask/#a-simple-example https://github.com/pallets/flask/#a-simple-example [2] https://parceljs.org https://parceljs.org