The Framework Nobody Wrote Down: Taking a Backbone App to React

Backbone gave you models, views, a router and events, and left the rest to you. So most Backbone apps carry a homegrown framework on top: a global singleton, an event bus, a navigation controller, view cleanup code, a template build step and a drawer of jQuery plugins. Moving to React is mostly about finding that framework and deciding what replaces it. This guide covers how to run Backbone and React side by side, let React read Backbone models, turn views into components, test an app that never had tests, and delete the code that only existed to keep Backbone tidy. Backbone never tried to be