For people who have wanted to try this type of programming out but have not jumped the boat from JavaScript to ClojureScript, I created a little library that mixes Backbone and React in a similar model described in the article: https://github.com/andrejewski/reactbone
It takes away a lot of the data-binding cruft that you find in Backbone.View and works well with React without making you switch languages, design paradigms, or add new libraries. The Backbone component makes it easier to build data hierarchies than with plain JS, but I assume other MVC frameworks could be retrofitted to work with React.
It takes away a lot of the data-binding cruft that you find in Backbone.View and works well with React without making you switch languages, design paradigms, or add new libraries. The Backbone component makes it easier to build data hierarchies than with plain JS, but I assume other MVC frameworks could be retrofitted to work with React.