<i>Same goes for &#x27;8. Use JSX, ES6, Babel, Webpack, and NPM&#x27; - JSX aside, setting up this tool stack is totally unnecessary for a beginner getting started hacking on a Hello World app.</i><p>While I agree with you in theory, in practice learning how to use Babel&#x2F;JSX and probably es6 are pretty essential to react. All the tutorials are written using JSX which necessitates a transpiler. And a ton of the supporting libraries are now in es6. If you are going to use react you&#x27;re really going to need to figure out the es6 tool chain.