Speaking for myself, I have used many platforms ranging from embedded to desktop and I also proud myself to be a competent old skool web developer - one who has avoided node.js, angular, amber and similar. React caught my attention and I tried to learn using it... What pain! What parent is saying about tooling is totally true. But maybe I just missed a simple hello world tutorial... I will check it out in a year or so, if it's still around by then.

Got a whole bunch of tutorials listed in my React/Redux links repo, at https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links. If you're looking for a couple that are really simple and involve no other tools or libraries, you may be interested in http://jamesknelson.com/learn-raw-react-no-jsx-flux-es6-webp... or https://github.com/kay-is/react-from-zero.

Thanks, appreciate it! I will save the links for the next time I go exploring React (which should be soon).