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[kathgironpe]

My thoughts as someone who built a React.js and Redux app:

This is not very beginner-friendly, but sufficient.

In fact, I found it easier to just create my own boilerplate.

I don't know if it makes sense to add related articles to the Wiki. We do that in several open source projects. Or should we just point to a repository like https://github.com/xgrommx/awesome-redux?

[gaearon]

Hey Katherine, thanks for coming by!

This is not very beginner-friendly

Can you expand on this? If there is anything you think we could improve to make this tool more beginner-friendly, I’d like to know!

I don't know if it makes sense to add related articles to the Wiki.

We started this project to solve the problem of the build configuration being too intimidating. So far the focus hasn’t been on “How do I learn React?” but rather “How do I get started with a production-ready build configuration without learning Webpack, Babel, etc?”

We have plans to revamp the React documentation itself to be more beginner-friendly but this is out of scope of this particular project. Perhaps, however, we are in a unique position to offer links to good React guides, so I will consider this.

We probably won’t link to anything related to Redux though because React beginners often get confused by it. Redux is fine when your app is bigger, but we’d like to make sure people learn React itself first. Additionally, “awesome” lists are very long and give the impression that you have to choose from a thousand of options. I would rather link to a few good articles than to a list of a hundred medium-quality articles.

I hope this makes sense. Would love to hear more of your thoughts on this.

[kathgironpe]

@gaearon So I understand now that this isn't an equivalent of ember-cli for React.js. I had a great expectation. It's definitely off scope. For many projects, I think Redux-first approach sort of helps. I look forward to that boilerplate project or I could write up about it. I admit I spent many hours just learning webpack.

This is helpful enough for absolute beginners, but pointing them to a documentation or a list of articles would be helpful. Thank you!

[gaearon]

No, it’s much more modest in scope than ember-cli. We just want to solve the build configuration. Code generation, plugins, or customization are not something we are working on, although we might explore this in the future.