You don’t really need to know the majority of what’s in this article to make good apps with React. It goes in-depth into how the framework works. Any framework will look complicated when you look under its hood; it’s meant to make everything possible after all.

Actual React apps are as simple and elegant as a complex (web) application ever could be. Separating your app into functional components where most complexity is always local is a great way to make the application structure as simple as they can be. Where developers often go wrong, is trying to force patterns from other frameworks or languages into React and TS/JS.