[CuriouslyC]

React/Redux is definitely more work. Having to go from just mutating state locally to dispatching actions and composing reducers also involves a big shift in thinking.

On the plus side: - It makes applications significantly more declarative, which is a readability win for me - It simplifies applications with rich history awareness. - It is fairly easy to reason about (particularly as compared with Angular) and debug. I find it conceptually more straightforward than backbone as well.