jquery - Handling ajax with React

Question

How should I handle ajax requests in a fairly traditional web application? Specifically with using React for views, while having a backend that handles data such as text and what not, but using ajax to automatically save user interactions such as toggling options or liking a post to the server.

Should I just use jQuery for this, or would something like Backbone be more beneficial?

Answer 1

Just in case anybody stumbled upon this and does not know, jQuery makes it super easy to send AJAX calls. Since React is just JavaScript it will work just like any other jQuery AJAX call.

React's own documentation uses jQuery to make the AJAX call so I assume that's good enough for most purposes regardless or stack.

componentDidMount: function() {
    $.ajax({
      url: this.props.url,
      dataType: 'json',
      cache: false,
      success: function(data) {
        this.setState({data: data});
      }.bind(this),
      error: function(xhr, status, err) {
        console.error(this.props.url, status, err.toString());
      }.bind(this)
    });
  },