I felt similar when I was assigned to build out a fairly simple tab display that pulled from a pretty straight forward API.

Truth is, the docs & tutorial from Facebook read like an unorganized stream of consciousness. While they do attempt to get you up and running fairly quick, the tutorial doesn’t lend itself well to projects of multiple components.

After painstakingly finding clever ways to pass down data into nested components, I realized that Flux had answers to these problems. Again, the Flux docs suffer the same problems as React ones.

This is what happens when playing early with newer technology. After the hard learning curve, React is surprisingly pleasant and intuitive.