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I browsed through the README and was somewhere between laughing and crying by the end - it's like a case-study for all the baffling complexity that's been added to front-end development over the last two or three years.

(I expect this comment won't be too popular, but I'm happy to take the flak.)

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Its the single page app tax. To be honest I find it infinitely more complex than a standard old school front end but I'm also happy to pay the tax and reap the benefits in the end. Not to mention it makes things more interesting from a pure dev fun point of view.

"Now, we should define an increment action." <TYPING INTENSIFIES>. 40 lines of code later, we can increment a variable.

This project is written as a literate program and most important parts of the code are exposed. What you see there is how it's actually implemented.

The action is defined like this:

const IncrementCounter = createAction(domain, 'IncrementCounter',t.maybe(incrementParameter))

(A oneliner)

to address this confusion, I've added an "excerpt from the library" label to show which parts of the code are just parts of the actual stack.

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