[joesb]

I really want to use React in my next application, but I'm lost on how to do visual things like animation (like a carousel), drag-drop, typeahead.

Do you have any suggestion on the best practice on doing those heavy DOM stuff in React?

I know I can use jQuery for that, but it feels wrong to me.

Also how do you handle integrating React with command based JS library, where your only interface to it is to call mutating functions, such that you cannot blindly rerender the whole things.

Suggestions on these two issues would help me greatly.