backbone-wrapper.js

import React from 'react';
import DashboardView from 'views/dashboard';

class DashboardPage extends React.PureComponent {
  
  // render an empty DIV and save a reference to it
  render() {
    return <div ref={node => this.node = node}></div>;
  }
  
  componentDidMount() {
    // render a Backbone view into the referenced DIV
    this.dashboardView = new DashboardView(this.node, this.props);
    this.dashboardView.render();
  }
  
  componentWillUnmount() {
    // don't forget to clean up after Backbone 
    this.dashboardView.remove();
  }
}