2017 is the Year for React Apps

Last year, I created a large client side app, using webpack v1, react router v2, and React. It taught me a lot about the state of JavaScript development. With the new year coming, I am going to make a prediction. Things are stabilizing. Does anyone else remember when Grunt was first released? Everyone was saying it's the best thing ever. Shortly after, Gulp was released and everyone I knew was switching to that. Then there was Browserify. Then came Webpack. Then 6-to-5 came along and later became Babel.

I had no idea how much stuff has come about in the past couple years until writing the above paragraph. I didn't even throw in all the flux libraries, CSS solutions, etc. There's a ton of things that got us to where we are today.

The beginning of this year, I created the biggest app I had ever made. Complete with code splitting and everything else a large app needs. Looking over the codebase after completion, I am happy with it overall. There's a lot I want to change with it. Using these…