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This guy makes his situation sound pretty fucking dire and then blames react for slowing him down? It takes awhile to learn any new technology. So he goes with what he knows. How is this React's problem? I worked with React for a year and know well enough to get a brand new app up in less than a day. So it'd make sense for me to choose React. I don't understand why this guy is blaming React.

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I am also a React fan but phrases like "I worked with React for a year and know well enough to get a brand new app up in less than a day" make me kind of sad. The cost just to get up and running with a JS framework these days is kind of painful. CLIs are doing a decent job resolving this, though.

With create-react-app, it takes less than a few seconds, if you're fine with their defaults. If you need to mess with the webpack config it will take a bit longer but once you do it the first time its not a big deal. Putting everything together from scratch would take awhile, but that's the tradeoff of having a really flexible modular system.

Well, some minutes with npm. With yarn, it might take a few seconds.

I usually count on a week to boilerplate a new application. I find that spending that time to do things in a more hand-crafted way is made up for my having a consistent implementation where the structure and code make sense. Glad to see more projects moving away from `./test, ./scripts, ./views, ./styles` structure.

that's fair - I built a react app for my company's website which is statically generated (a twist on server-rendering), and that took about a week to boilerplate. Next time I do it though it will take no time at all.

True, as long as you're using the same versions of the tools... I find that even after a year, if I'm boilerplating something out, even if similar, it's still about a week. The tools change, and APIs between versions break. I had to deal with a react-router change between the last beta and the final 4.0.0 just yesterday (this.context.router.push vs this.context.router.history.push). I tend to mostly lock down my versioning on things to a large extent as a project matures... but even keeping up is more organic.

Starting something new in a year, or 18 months can be dramatically different than the previous start.

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