meh, I think people are tired of the JS churn. It is time to converge around react and just lay code.

Alt is way simpler to understand. However, redux seems to have emerged as the industry standard out of the reflux, flux, alt, battles. Redux and the redux ecosystem is exhausting, but it is and will be better to have on the resume than alt.

You forgot: selectors compose thunks redux ducks stateless reducers dispatch actions action creators immutable.js records reselect normalizr redux-rotuer provider redux container reducer action creator action Store combineReducer Redux Devtools Falcor Logger Just know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. If you master these libraries, you too can build a form, or even have notifications on your web app. You know, similar to to exactly what you could do with jQuery.