I started learning react a few weeks ago and I've been using react-router and thinking about learning styled components or something similar. I have a few years of "experience" with toy <5000LoC "webapps".

I don't think they're that hard to discover, although I spent a while trying other Google searches before I realized react-training's react-router was the real router everyone mentions. Somehow their website seemed quite scammy, and I was very surprised routing wasn't in some sort of core/stdlib.

It's also important to note that not all developers have the same constraints.

If your employment prospects don't depend on using the major frameworks that everyone else is using, you're probably going to choose (or even create) a framework that best fits with the way you think and the way you like to work.

Like they said, React router and the TS template for create react app. There’s your overhead discovery work to do an equivalent to this with react.

Equivalent to you maybe. Certainly not to me. Not that either one of us holds the absolute truth.

create-react-app only does setup. And react router is by no means intuitive.