I'm more interested in the React part of this tutorial. If the backend was swapped with another framework. can the tutorial still be followed to learn React?
I just finished going through this http://survivejs.com/webpack_react/introduction/ whole thing building a kanban board using react and altjs. It was really interesting, though a much simpler version of what was posted in the OP I learned a lot about webpack and react, and got to try a different flavor of flux I hadn't experimented with before (alt.js).
I'm excited to dive into the OPs tutorial however. It looks really interesting.