My man, a lot of the pain described in this article can be solved by Mobx: https://stackshare.io/mobx

One of our engineers at StackShare[0] suggested it and it's fantastic.

Mobx is very simple to understand and will make writing a "React" page a real joy again. Redux was way too complicated for what it gave, and just shot term after term after term at me that left me with a headache. I still don't understand Redux proper.

>Why do you have to type so much?

I know! I nope'd away from Redux because of that same reason.

But Mobx clicked for me. And if it clicked for me, it'll click for you.

Basically you have a store and you use that store anywhere in your components to share store state. When you update that store state everywhere else updates as well. Simple.

Another great reason to use React as opposed to alternatives is react-native. A _lot_ of knowledge transfer between the web and mobile with react native. It's pretty insane.

[0] - https://stackshare.io/stackshare/stackshare