If you are going to set up a new project with the latest version of React and Meteor, you may get benefited from my pattern : https://blog.designveloper.com/2016/06/21/react-structure-container-component-in-meteor/
Hope you can take the best of it!
So…you developed this pattern and wrote that article? I’m curious, for right now it looks like you and the author of that article have nothing in common 
