>with React, I'd spend the first couple of days just fiddling around with build scripts.
Yeah a long time ago now. Since July 2016 create-react-app has been available, there are many other scaffolding tools as well.
>Sure, there are now react boilerplates that do this, but there are too many out there to properly evaluate what to use.
Use the one provided by the creators, facebook.
Why not just make it a part of the framework?
React is small (ok, "small"), you can use it out of the box without any build scripts. It doesn't make sense to package it up.
And speaking as someone who's done React for a couple years now and had to port old rails codebases to api-only / react views... yuck, never again. Rails is cluncky and most of the devs I worked with didn't know how anything works 'under the hood'.
Yeah a long time ago now. Since July 2016 create-react-app has been available, there are many other scaffolding tools as well.
>Sure, there are now react boilerplates that do this, but there are too many out there to properly evaluate what to use.
Use the one provided by the creators, facebook.
Why not just make it a part of the framework?
React is small (ok, "small"), you can use it out of the box without any build scripts. It doesn't make sense to package it up.
And speaking as someone who's done React for a couple years now and had to port old rails codebases to api-only / react views... yuck, never again. Rails is cluncky and most of the devs I worked with didn't know how anything works 'under the hood'.