Just looked at the "dependencies" for one of my projects and it interprets "react" as this 5 year old, defunct repo: https://github.com/wballard/react.
Let's be honest, unless you use a private NPM registry, "react" means https://www.npmjs.com/package/react. GitHub should use the standard resolution algorithm as employed by npm/yarn (the CLI tools).
https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/package.json
See Redux: https://github.com/reactjs/redux/blob/master/package.json#L3...