I lol'd the minute I saw the flow chart. It's absurd. Helpful and well-intentioned, but absurd.
1. Much of it reads as"are you taking this approach? yes? don't take this approach. no? take this approach."
2. There are also a couple of flowchart errors ("are you working on a production app" appears twice for no reason).
3. The main reason React makes me sad is the need for excruciating flowcharts like this.
As a result, the entire thing comes across as self-parody. For context, I'm a developer who works on a large enterprise app with a full build toolchain (npm, babel, webpack, sass, etc ad infinitum).
Also, the "are you working on a production app?" has two nodes so that it can model the fork into {yes bundle, no bundle}, common in flowcharts.
If you use React in production and don’t use a bundler, you should. If you don’t use React in production and do use a bundler, perhaps you shouldn’t because it will distract you from learning process. Does that help?
The “need” for flowcharts like this comes from lots of misleading information on the internet about React, not from React itself.
Thank you for your comments!
But I also understand the reality of our field, where such things are very serious, and yet always verging on self-parody. I'm getting used to it.