How to graft React on to legacy code

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There are a lot of live projects out there built using older web tech stacks. Starting from scratch is usually out of the question and upgrading the codebase could be a herculean task, especially if there are no unit tests or decent build tools already in place. This article discusses and demonstrates a simple working demo of integrating a Backbone/jQuery app with <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/react" target="_blank">React</a> by using Redux and the <a href="https://medium.com/@DjamelH/ducks-redux-reducer-bundles-44267f080d22" target="_blank">Ducks++</a> pattern. If you haven’t heard of Ducks, it is basically a simple design pattern for modularising your Redux code.