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Next is the worst framework I’ve ever used next to rails. It’s pure overhead for most apps.
Try mvc-router, see here: https://github.com/wisercoder/mvc-router/tree/master/DemoApp... React was originally meant to be the 'V' in MVC. You can still use it that way and React becomes very simple when you only use it for UI. Why do data fetching in a React component?
I built something similar actually: https://starfx.bower.sh