Echo JS 0.11.0

This library seems to introduce its' own complete CSS instead of re-using the SCSS that Bootstrap from source offers.

Don't use bootstrap this way... It's *REALLY* easy to use Bootstrap's SCSS from source.. Include bootstrap as an npm dependency, have your scss file set whatever font/color settings you want to use, then include the scss from bootstrap proper.

Not really a fan of ORMs at all... would rather use joi for validation, and libraries that use plain objects to represent data...

Cool, but what does this really do/offer over react-redux's useSelector?  I mean, you potentially have access outside of context, but you can do that with React's Context as well as Redux.

Really veers off-topic.  Do you guys appreciate this kind of content?  It seems to be higher quality than most similar content I see, usually very spammy, which is why I didn't just delete it.

Like too many articles, this conflates/confuses a couple of things... Material Design is the design guidelines by Google[1].  Material-UI[2] is a React library of components that implement Material Design.

That said, Material-UI is the single best component library, with React that I have ever used or experienced.  In practical use, I will almost always defer to the design guideline and component defaults and/or examples and try to use the components with minimal modification.  There are a *LOT* of components that follow the theming and it works great.

I will say some of the commercial (and free versions) of "templates" that use material-ui are very bad in terms of code structure and layout.  They often break the approach setup in the framework (using a function for jss that receives the theme and adding additional properties to the injected theme).

1. https://material.io/
2. https://material-ui.com/

Really like this library overall... while it may seem weird using abstractions for browser API use, the abstractions are clean and the use is really close to what one would hand-craft anyway.

Used Twilio a couple times for things like this, Nexmo seems to be a hair less expensive, but not sure how responsive Nexmo is vs Twilio.

While not a huge fan of TS, it takes a lot of extra work, and at the application level the effort isn't always worth it... I will say, as far as library support, it's been pretty valuable to the point where I've been considering moving anything I push to npm in the future being written in TS.

Nice introduction and explanation for this workflow.  A suggested followup would be if you're using TypeScript instead of Component.propTypes.

FYI, if you're using redux, connected-react-router[1] is my goto solution for routing... works with the default router wiring.

1. https://www.npmjs.com/package/connected-react-router