You caught my attention with this "alot less painful than trying to use Flux with an API backend" Can you elaborate a bit on how you architect your apps with Meteor and React?

I've typically tied my Flux Action layer to my api backend (where my ajax code goes) which then dispatches to the Store layer, then the View (react components) listens to that...

With Meteor where are you hooking your api backend into the react components? I'm a little lost looking for decent examples of different Meteor/React architectures.