[rhaksw]

> I work at a big company with a great team doing what most people would consider high-level React work that is used by at least hundreds of engineers. But most days if I'm honest I struggle with it too

> The great part about React is that you can start small. Start with the React Create App and just build a widget

Great points! Your whole comment is worth reading.

PS. I had no idea Elastic open sources its internal React UI components. Interesting. (found this via your HN profile). Should I be using this if I want to provide an interface to an API that exposes an Elastic Search DB?

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It's Apache 2. You can use it for anything though we do road-map against our own uses of course (mostly Kibana). There's nothing specifically tied to ES in it. The only difference with our library vs. someone else is we tend to have to deal with things like data density, form layouts and visualizations more often than other folks.