[bjterry]

Backbone and react.js is indeed an awesome combination for single-page web applications. React makes for an awesome templating layer, and makes the performance of rendering dramatically faster than using more complex Backbone views in the traditional manner. Throw in backbone-react-component to get react views that automatically update when the underlying model or collection changes and you have a damn good stack.

[danabramov]

IMO when already learning React it's no use learning Backbone at all. Better start with Flux.

Backbone is not needed with React and although it is possible for them to be together (hell, we lived React+Backbone for almost a year), everything gets so much nicer when you can finally drop Backbone baggage.

It might be possible though that in order to see where Flux shines, one has to sweat through limitations of Backbone. That may be valuable experience.