title: Does Redux slow down your development speed?
body: <p>I've been using Redux for months now and I realized that using Redux actually slows down my dev speed a lot (sorry that the title is provocative). I separated the backend and frontend completely into two repos. I use Rails on the backend and Redux on the frontend.</p>
  
  <p>It feels very nice to be following the modern ES6 trend with React, Redux, and Babel. But these two things bother me:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>You have to write a LOT of code just to get CRUD right. Getting the loading state right, making sure that the frontend and backend data are always in sync, etc. is more hassle than you might imagine.</li>
  <li>You have to worry about SSR, which is not all that simple.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>So I went ahead and re-wrote my app in Rails and React without using Redux. Basically, I just used React to draw presentational components, and Rails controllers replaced Redux's smart containers. Then, I could implement the same functionality twice as fast.</p>
  
  <p>When should I actually use Redux? Am I doing something wrong?</p>