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Most frameworks I have used (yes React included) don't require any of those. Their documentation is lacking/confusing, and the community build "documentation" is not designed to bring a newbie from the newbie level to the guru level gradually - it is designed for jumping straightway up. Several hundreds of "starter" templates are one good place where the dependency bloat starts because the template maker wanted to cover every single usecase ever, but not help the user start (see the irony?).

You can very well use React/Angular(1, atleast)/etc. just by including a script file in your markup and continuing to write your application code. There was a tutorial series for React posted on HN sometime before that made you learn React just this way.