I have no clue what you're talking about re docs - i went from zero front-end experience to having a working spa with router and redux and material components in like 2 weeks after going through the react training tut and abramov's redux videos on egghead - maybe you're the one that's not good as you think. people dramatically exaggerate how "messy" the react ecosystem is. you can figure everything out by using chrome dev tools with the react and redux extensions and a little chatting on #reactjs. but whatever more full stack jobs for me I guess.