Exactly. It used to be that every single React tutorial started with "First, we're going to install Webpack and Babel", and half the tutorial would be filled w

Exactly. It used to be that every single React tutorial started with "First, we're going to install Webpack and Babel", and half the tutorial would be filled with configuring those before it even got to the React code. As a specific example, 3 years ago a React tutorial for building a Yelp clone made it onto the front page of HN [0]. The comments bashed it for spending a ton of time on build setup (and somewhat justifiably so). Now, React tutorials just start with "run `create-react-app my-app`", and go from there. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11778663 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11778663