React seems to emphasize using regular javascript and existing NPM modules where possible. Superagent [1] seems to be a popular one, but you can find more on Re

React seems to emphasize using regular javascript and existing NPM modules where possible. Superagent [1] seems to be a popular one, but you can find more on React's wiki [2]. If you start using a flux implementation like Redux, there are other interesting things you can do to handle api requests [3]. [1] https://github.com/visionmedia/superagent https://github.com/visionmedia/superagent [2] https://github.com/facebook/react/wiki/Complementary-Tools#data-fetching https://github.com/facebook/react/wiki/Complementary-Tools#d... [3] http://redux.js.org/docs/advanced/index.html http://redux.js.org/docs/advanced/index.html