Given the amount of React knowledge in the thread and the fact that I just finally groked Redux... what would you recommend to emulate something like ionic? MaterialUI + some sort of flexboxing?
For a material design look, I've used material-ui, mdl, and react-md. react-md is the best in my opinion. Incredibly complete and polished for being done by essentially one person. https://github.com/mlaursen/react-md