I had a pretty decent working example of coupling the two earlier this year: http://beatmatch.esmevane.com/

I wired things up using a Flux-like architecture, where the Store would periodically signal a data change and the component would render it, transitions and all. It all worked out pretty much as I expected.

https://github.com/esmevane/beatmatch/blob/master/assets/scr...

https://github.com/esmevane/beatmatch/blob/master/assets/scr...