Along the same lines, I was making a web app with React and found that while the ability to be creative in putting together components is exciting, I'd like a more integrated stack I can reuse for other apps.

While I haven't tried it out yet, it seems that Meteor is pretty close to what I think of as ideal, and the news that they are going to integrate React is great. (Now if only they announced native RDMBS support. Also, I care about server-side rendering and would have to double-check whether that's possible in Meteor.)