React in itself is a simple (and ugly, if you ask me) templating library. The real mess comes with the many libraries around it. The worst offender for me are

React in itself is a simple (and ugly, if you ask me) templating library. The real mess comes with the many libraries around it. The worst offender for me are reactive stores. I'm reviewing a simple candidates' programming assignment (in Angular, though). There is a simple taks to perform. The horrendously complicated and generally broken ones are those where the candidates decided to use a reactive store. Just tons of unnecessary code impossible to follow and decipher.