As mentioned during the IRC meeting earlier this week. I spent some time recently putting together a React-driven UI prototype as a strawman for a discussion about potentially moving away from Angular for the UI. This prototype is now available on Github: https://github.com/jcohen/aurora-react .
As mentioned in the README, the project is very simple. It doesn't actually talk to the Scheduler and it only contains two pages (of which only one attempts to render data). It also uses the current UI layout for convenience. The intention to use it as a way to judge whether this style of app is preferable to Angular or if we should renew our investment in the current Angular based UI and pay down the tech debt that it has accrued. Interested to hear everyone's thoughts! Cheers, Joshua