React Tutorial: Cloning Yelp
To me this epitomizes what I feel as I&#x27;m trying to explore options for different front-end frameworks. In this article I&#x27;m 30 screens down (literally 30 page down presses) and it&#x27;s not even finished setting up the environment and dependencies.<p>Sure, this is something that you only do once, so if it then leads to much better development workflow it makes sense to have a solid investment upfront, but it makes it very hard to compare technologies and make informed decisions given how much up-front &quot;glue&quot; is needed to get a demo application up and running.<p>I&#x27;m not blaming react, everything else in the javascript space is just as bad right now. There&#x27;s at least 4 different ways of loading modules (UMD, AMD, commonJS, es (babel) modules), 2 of which (require(), import .. from) are used within this example.<p>In fact the whole process is so complex part of the process is &quot;clone this package which has pre-configured parts of the process&quot;.<p>And all of this to glue together a couple of APIs.