Beyond the usual quick tips, let's look at both the business case and the technical side of keeping React bundles lean.

But I dove in anyway. I managed to get through the basic Facebook tutorial and some others and got some React Native apps running, but it was quite a challenging experience and I didn't feel ...

React is not an end-to-end JavaScript application framework. It has no support for models or controllers, although there are projects related to React that cover these functions, along with routing.