(above not quite done, it's for a presentation I'm going to do in December, but it's pretty close)
React works better for many things - server side rendering for SEO; endless scrawling wall of chunks of more-of-the-same (social media...) - but it's not "simple".
I guess I should have said it is helpful that somebody is putting together a tutorial for what they feel is a useful path to a certain destination.
BUT, the author might want to address the "elephant in the room" that there is a certain amount of necessary complexity if you want to meet certain goals.
Angular (1.x) might not be "cool" anymore, but it can be pretty darn "minimal" to set up: https://github.com/roboprog/ang-prog-enh
(above not quite done, it's for a presentation I'm going to do in December, but it's pretty close)
React works better for many things - server side rendering for SEO; endless scrawling wall of chunks of more-of-the-same (social media...) - but it's not "simple".