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Re:Hacker News Clone Using GraphQL and React by mike-cardwell on Monday October 02, 2017 @02:52AM (#15382105)
Sentence 2 on the front page:

"It is intended to be an example or boilerplate to help you structure your projects using production-ready technologies."

He could have used less tech, but then the project wouldn't have served it's purpose.

Re:Hacker News Clone Using GraphQL and React by dullgiulio on Monday October 02, 2017 @10:04AM (#15383901)
Assuming that boilerplate is indeed necessary. Many comments point out exactly that: this very page shows that the boilerplate for a really fast page is just the opened and closed html tag.