[mikeryan]

I think we see the early growing pains of a new ecosystem.

React is great and a fantastic tool but by making it "just the 'V'" it opened up a lot of options and complexity in the ecosystem and Redux/Reflux/Flux/Relay each are trying to fill in the missing pieces. And yes it's hard to figure out and painful even for seasoned vets. But its getting better, the community seems to be settling on Redux for the most part over Flux/Reflux (Relay tries to solve a different problem).

NodeJS web development is kind of in the same boat. There's still no clear "winner" in the framework wars there like Django/Rails. I don't know why these trends seem to be magnified in the JavaScript ecosystem but it's similar to the early days of Java web development in the late 90s early 00s (Struts anyone?).