[drdaeman]

I.e. you suggest to use no library, but just ad-hoc DIY XHR/websocket/whatever-else-works to do what React doesn't?

I was asking exactly because I've already tried this and didn't like the process and results. Used the loading indication approach, with models having `pendingUpdate` flags. Basically, I felt that I'm writing ton of unnecessary code that had to be written only because things are too low-level. Like I was re-solving already solved problems.

React does the UI layer, but DIY data model + persistence layers aren't fun. What I'm looking for, is something like Angular's $resource (or its extensions) for React. Something that hides away the unnecessarily gory details (low-level XHR stuff, URL construction, maybe even data validation) behind a programmer-friendly API facade (`Item.save`), plays well with React and those fluxish patterns, yet doesn't enforce any special requirements on the server-side tech (i.e. can be used with existing Django/Rails/PHP backends).