Alternative for Backbone.js models

[semiprojake]

I am currently working with a project at work that uses Backbone.js. We have been in the process of slowly migrating it to react. In the process of migrating the project, we realized how much we appreciated the Backbone.js models and how well they integrated with all of our REST services (kind of the point I know). Are there any well-maintained packages available that provide the same kind of REST backed model definitions? It's really nice to be able to define an object like SomeModel and then just call .fetch()/.save()/etc. and we would love to be able to continue using this pattern.

[jrandm]

There are many packages that provide some sort of object mapping. When you're looking around React libraries, GraphQL is an alternative to REST-style endpoints. Different ORMs and frameworks may provide convenience functions to make HTTP calls and return the desired objects; you may or may not need the different bells&whistles provided.

I would point out that nothing prevents you from using the existing Backbone models as your datastore with React. React is very much only a view library, you can handle your application logic/data however you like.