Submission largely accepted but you aren't making a real point with what you've submitted. I say "largely" because I agree with gp that 2 hours is hardly hell for a larger project but agreed that is pointless for basic/toy applications. This isn't really a solid indictment against React and webpack however. If you are really making a tiny/toy app, and not doing so for educational reasons, then yeah probably you should just use jquery and edit js/html/css (vs ES6/JSX or Jade/SASS + redux, testing, etc, etc which is not trivial).