Other users have already commented, but basically you can wrap jQuery libraries in React components and do a bit of extra work in the lifecycle methods (compone

Other users have already commented, but basically you can wrap jQuery libraries in React components and do a bit of extra work in the lifecycle methods (componentDidMount, componentWillUnmount, etc.) to manage the jQuery bits. Once you've wrapped it in a component, you can more or less drop that component anywhere in your view hierarchy and not have to think about the fact that it's using jQuery under the hood. This highlights one of my favorite things about React and similar frameworks, which is that it's the closest thing to actual, useful encapsulation of components I've seen in a frontend framework. It's not perfect, but it's much better than everything I used before it.