hey thanks! wordact author here. i think the main benefit is that it can reduce gobs of boilerplating time. i love the javascript ecosystem, and i think ecmascript keeps getting better and more beautiful, but man is it a pain to set up a proper project, with babel, and webpack, and server-side rendering, and more.

but give it an install and check it out! it's pretty easy. instructions here: http://wordact.io/2017/04/how-to-set-up-your-development-env...