title: Why using Django and React requires so much extra packages?
body: <p>I have been going through a tutorial (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GieYIzvdt2U" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GieYIzvdt2U</a>) where you have to use Babel, Webpack, and Redux which are all complicated in their regards. Why we can not use &quot;djangorestframework&quot; as my API and get the information using that API from React using JS. What do I gain using all these packages or I can not simply use what I am suggesting?</p>