SPA Sage Theme with the new REST API

I’m curious if anyone have adapted React into their WP workflows yet. I’ve seen a couple of examples, such as Us Two, and small unfinished repos on Github. I’m about to embark on a new project and I figured I’d try to test React this time around. But seeing the complexity and the fact that React and WP doesn’t marry that well (yet). I’m a bit thrown off.

In a way I feel I missed the React bandwagon, I mean, it’s been out there for awhile now, but while researching now I feel it’s not mature for bringing in, in a time sensitive project as there is too much work with figuring out how stuff will work together.

Ideally how I would like to work with React would be to use it as a theme like any other. But the route that seem to make sense right now would be to push up WP as a separate app onto DO or AWS and then develop the front-end using React that consumes data from my WP install and simply keep them separate from each other.

Any thoughts or resources?