I’d like to advocating for the Meteor community to get help with the transition in the form of a deep dive video on Rewriting Blaze 1 into React components similar (but more in-depth) to the one @fvg posted? A how-to that covers converting from the bottom up – not the top down – component by component (I’m talking only a portion of a Blaze 1 template small).
This is the video describing the technique: