The only thing you need is Ajax and you have it right here in the browser without the need of a third party library. All the rest can be handled by React and it

The only thing you need is Ajax and you have it right here in the browser without the need of a third party library. All the rest can be handled by React and its plugins. That's how I do things, React + raw Xml Http requests. Since JSX is already a layer on its own no need to add yet another layer of complexity.