> I work at a big company with a great team doing what most people would consider high-level React work that is used by at least hundreds of engineers. But most days if I'm honest I struggle with it too

> The great part about React is that you can start small. Start with the React Create App and just build a widget

Great points! Your whole comment is worth reading.

PS. I had no idea Elastic open sources its internal React UI components. Interesting. (found this via your HN profile). Should I be using this if I want to provide an interface to an API that exposes an Elastic Search DB?