Re:Show HN: Reactuate – a React/Redux stack with a focus on ...
by yrashk on Sunday January 31, 2016 @11:44PM
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Thanks! This project was born out of my personal frustration (I tried many boilerplates, wasn't happy with either and hated the fork-and-forget approach). I am already using it for some real projects myself. If it will be useful for anybody else — that'll be great!
While it's nice to have small dependencies that you can swap out over time as your use case evolves or as the ecosystem progresses, most of the time I'd just like to use the "standard stack" for a given platform. As someone who primarily uses Angular, one of the main benefits I see of Angular's 'kitchen-sink' approach is that you get a lot of standard functionality right out of the box (e.g. routing, i18n, animation) without having to research the best community package for that particular functionality. However, I think it's the narrow focus of React on the 'View' layer that's made it so widely adopted, because it plays well with an existing stack.
Having a project like this seems like the best of both worlds - libraries like React can focus on excelling in a single concern and developers still get a curated set of standard functionality so they can setup a complete web app.