[mike-cardwell]

Sentence 2 on the front page:

"It is intended to be an example or boilerplate to help you structure your projects using production-ready technologies."

He could have used less tech, but then the project wouldn't have served it's purpose.

[dullgiulio]

Assuming that boilerplate is indeed necessary. Many comments point out exactly that: this very page shows that the boilerplate for a really fast page is just the opened and closed html tag.