For me React is great in comparison to anything I've tried before, which was really hand-rolled, jQuery, and Backbone. I tried to get into Ember/Angular in the

For me React is great in comparison to anything I've tried before, which was really hand-rolled, jQuery, and Backbone. I tried to get into Ember/Angular in the past, but the learning curve was way too high. I didn't have time to spend a month going slow. With React, I was up and running within a day. Of course, it took way longer to put together a good stack. I spent months pushing React and trying to learn the best practices there. I did end up with something relevant though. I built Reapp: http://reapp.io http://reapp.io It's really a bunch of things in one, but I think it's hugely overlooked for being an awesome bootstrapping method for getting a full-featured React app up and running. You can have your app running with hot reloads, ES6, cordova-builds, flux, etc all in minutes with a single command. And of course it includes an awesome (IMO) UI kit to boot.