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They use the word 'boilerplate' too liberally. A 10-page app with a bunch of screens you won't use is just an example application.

It's not the boilerplate's fault though. I don't know why but newbies to the React ecosystem keep try to learn from them. As you said, it doesn't help at all. If you see someone trying to get into React, redirect them here:

https://cdn.rawgit.com/gaearon/react-makes-you-sad/1377b6a6c...

I wrote a react-starter app a few months ago for my friends I was trying to convert to react, and so I could streamline making smaller prototypes.

As a teaching tool it was ok, but people kept getting tripped up by the webpack / build tool phase of the app. It's different than the way most people start apps with angular or backbone.

I also dislike boilerplates, I hate making a project with someone else's legacy code baked in.

I thought it would be nice to have a dependency wrap around the webpack / babel api for me, so I made https://github.com/eanplatter/enclave. So far it's helped my noob friends get introduced to React without having to think about webpack, but also doesn't add boilerplate code to the app.

Sorry for the shameless plug, just thought it might be relevant :D