This was actually one thing that drew me into React from the beginning, the api was so small and it was very easy to understand. I could start and be up and run

This was actually one thing that drew me into React from the beginning, the api was so small and it was very easy to understand. I could start and be up and running very quickly and also learn most of the api fast. Some solutions are very easy to start with but then you have to learn more and more and it takes a lot of time. I think Vue was like this in the beginning. You could just start with simple data binding but for a real application you should switch to VueEx and you could start with without a compile/transpile step but if you had a serious application you probably needed that anyway.