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Any chance you would take contract work to do the same thing with react.js from facebook. It could be open source

I've started to create a version of it in React: http://sanderspies.github.io/react-material/

For now I wouldn't use it in production (broken build, not complete, etc.) - but it might be a start for what you want.

Newbie question: Do bootstrap themes like this work in react-bootstrap? http://react-bootstrap.github.io/

Yeah sure, react-bootstrap has all the normal bootstrap classes so as long as you theme it right you'll be sorted.