React-Boilerplate v3: The “JS Fatigue Antivenin” Edition
Advice please: I tried to wade into the weird and complicated world of web development a few months ago, but eventually I gave up.<p>At first I used a boilerplate (in fact I think it was a previous version of this one), but it felt like I was jumping in the deep end. I didn&#x27;t know what anything was, I didn&#x27;t understand the configuration or the setup, and nothing was making sense.<p>So instead I decided &quot;I&#x27;ll start from scratch, introduce dependencies as I need them, and I&#x27;ll actually understand what&#x27;s happening&quot;. But then as I started to try and introduce dependencies and pieces of the toolchain and stack (Babel, GraphQL&#x2F;Relay etc.) and that was a whole different type of confusing. I found it really hard to follow tutorials unless they were written for EXACTLY the stack I was using, because small changes seemed to radically change how I had to go about things.<p>How do you start? Both situations seem perilous. Bottom up is really difficult unless you follow a tutorial that exactly matches your stack. Starting with boilerplate means that if anything breaks you have no idea how to fix it or how anything works.