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Facebook's Flux is pretty verbose and can be difficult to setup but similar libraries like Redux are very simple if you have prior JavaScript experience.

React is also pretty simple when compared to libraries like Angular.

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I agree, React is fairly simple to use on it's own, but the Flux pattern / framework is really where the complexity comes in, IMO. I refer to them together b/c you rarely see one without the other. My general feeling is, Flux seems like an excellent solution for some of the problems Facebook has -- their inbox for example, where you have multiple components on a page that need to react when external events happen (a message is sent, a message is received, etc). My feeling is that many would-be cargo-cult-ers don't have problems at this level of complexity. Most of them are doing basic CRUD operations, and using a needlessly complex framework to do it.

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