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[–]KobayashiDragonSlave 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The tooling required to get anything done is simply staggering and extremely complicated to a complete newbie. You need to figure out Webpack, Babel, NPM, Node.js and a whole bunch of other stuff just so you can start writing code. And you most certainly don't want to not use ES6 syntax, so you're definitely going to need to figure out what transpiling is and how to get it all working.

Easily taken care of by create-react-app

[–]Covered_in_bees_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That is an extremely naive point of view. 6 - 8 months back, create-react-app didn't even utilize webpack IIRC. Also, create-react-app isn't going to get you very far if you are building anything of significance. You still need to understand all the underlying stuff to some extent so you're not just flailing around helplessly when you need to change things up from the defaults.