Comment by shafyy

I agree that there is some amount of boiler plate code to Redux that doesn't seem to make sense and takes a long time to do when you're new. But I think it really helps with maintenance and scalability of projects down the road and saves you time later on.

Of course, as others have said, React and Redux is not a panacea - depending on what you want to achieve and on your personal preferences there might be better tools.