I've built a few small apps for internal use on Ionic and have now just started implementing the next one in React. It has oddly been a tremendous joy using React, and I think I appreciate it even more after using Angular for a few years.

I get that one of the advantages of React is that you have so much freedom to configure your app or use the exact modules you want. But trying to do that right now has been a downright nightmare. I've spent most of my time resolving dependencies issues or navigating open Github issues trying to get some basic things to work.

The underlying conceptual model is extremely solid, though, so I'm figuring it is well worth it to put up with some of this pain right now as a sort of investment.